Here’s the cert petition we’ve been waiting to drop.
If you follow this blog, you know we are all over the issue of the quick-take-by-injunction scheme that private condemnors have cooked up, and which a majority of federal courts go along with.
Here’s the issue: can a private condemnor exercising the delegated eminent domain power
If you are in the Williamsburg, Virginia area next week Wednesday, March 13, 2019, please hold the lunch hour (12:50-1:50pm, Room L127) on your calendar to come join us for a session with Howard Mansfield, author of the recently-published book “The Habit of Turning the World Upside Down – Our Belief in Property and
Here’s the motion and proposed amicus brief we filed earlier this week, in a case we’ve been following about natural gas pipelines, eminent domain, and immediate possession.
As we noted here, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit recently concluded that a private condemnor under the Natural Gas Act
We suppose we should not be too surprised by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit’s panel opinion in Mountain Valley Pipeline, LLC v. 6-56 Acres, No. 18-1159 (Feb. 5, 2019), which concluded, like the Third, Sixth, and Eleventh Circuits did recently, that a private condemnor may obtain immediate possession
Here is our annual “proof of life” photo, taken from the dais during the opening session, to prove that all 250 of us were in the room for the ALI-CLE Eminent Domain Conference, and not out on a Palm Springs golf course (it is 72º and sunny, so a golf course would not be a
If you didn’t register to attend the 36th Annual ALI-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation Conference later this week in Palm Springs, California, well then, shame on you!
According to the National Weather Service, while you and the rest of the country is freezing, we’ll be enjoying the balmy desert climes, and discussing
Don’t Miss the 2019 Eminent Domain Litigation Conference from American Law Institute CLE on Vimeo.
Check out this sound blurb, produced by the good media folks at ALI-CLE, about the upcoming Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation Conference. (And no, we didn’t record this in a jazz club; although I wish we had.)
There’s
We have mostly avoided the most recent kerfuffle about the southern border wall (or fence, take your pick) for a few reasons.
First, the signal-to-noise ratio is pretty bad at the moment, and that usually isn’t a good predictor for rational conversation. Second, others are covering the subject much better than we ever could. See
We’re almost there, but we still have room remaining. At the 2018 Conference in Charleston, we both sold out the registrations and the conference hotel, so we planned ahead for the upcoming 2019 Conference in Palm Springs at the Renaissance Palm Springs Resort.
Register here. You will also be able to download
Pitt lawprof Gerald S. Dickinson has written an interesting op-ed in the Washington Post, “The biggest problem for Trump’s border wall isn’t money. It’s getting the land.” The sublede poses an interesting thought: “Eminent domain fights could take years.”
Which raises the question, could it?
Yes, it might, as Professor