Property rights

‘Tis the season for TV holiday movies. Here’s one to add to your list, as it is on-brand for us dirt lawyers. “Christmas at the Drive In” is described thusly:

“A property lawyer works to prove that her town’s Drive In Theater, a local institution, is not closed down at the holidays, finding

Sticks bundle
We thought this was going to be about sticks.

We ain’t gonna pretend we understand cryptocurrency or blockchain. I’m just a caveman. Your world frightens and confuses me!

And there’s a lot there to confuse us in the U.S. Court of Appeals’ recent opinion in Van Loon v. Dep’t of the Treasury, No.

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How it started.

Once again, our fall duties included teaching two property law courses at the William and Mary Law School: Eminent Domain & Property Rights, and Land Use Controls. We started in mid-August, and just wrapped the classroom portion of the courses earlier this week. I say “classroom portions” because although we are done

The latest state supreme court decision involving a takings challenge to a statute permitting precondemnation entries, this time from Iowa.

In Summit Carbon Solutions, LLC v. Kasischke, No. 23-1186 (Nov. 22, 2024), the Iowa Supreme Court concluded that, at least on its face, Iowa’s entry statute for hazardous liquid pipelines, which permits

We’re not going to pretend to fully understand the Supreme Court of India’s recent decision in Property Owners Ass’n v. State of Maharashtra, No. 2012-2022 (Nov. 4, 2024) for obvious reasons (plus, the judgement and various opinions and dissents total 193 pages).

But we post it here because we think it gives some insight

Here are the cases and other materials we discussed in today’s Section of State & Local Government Law Land Use group meeting on takings: