There’s still time to join us next Friday, October 4, 2024, at the Antonin Scalia Law School (George Mason University) for the symposium “Too Far: Imagining the Future of Regulatory Takings.”
Co-produced by our outfit (Pacific Legal Foundation) and the Journal of Law, Economics & Policy, the symposium will feature the
Here’s the latest in a case we’ve been following (and in which we filed an amicus brief in favor of the property owner).
Yesterday, the North Carolina Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Town of Apex v. Rubin. Here’s a link to the recording (YouTube prevents us from embedding it, sorry).
This is a
Heads up: the second episode of the rebooted Eminent Domain Podcast is live, with host Bobby Debelak and guest law professor Ilya Somin. Here’s the description of this ep:
Professor Ilya Somin of George Mason University and the Cato Institute discusses his work in drafting amicus papers in the Kelo case, working with Jane Jacobs
On the day we celebrate Constitution Day (or should we say Khaaaaan-stitution Day?) we have to admit that pretty much nothing beats One Named Kirk’s reading of the Preamble.
KIRK: This was not written for chiefs.Hear me! Hear this! Among my people, we carry many such words as this from many lands
The gunfight at the OK Corral is about all we know
about bearing arms in public places.
There’s a lot going on in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit’s opinion in Wolford v. Lopez, No. 23-4356 (Sep. 6, 2024), and none of it is about takings, at least directly. And the
The 21st Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference is underway at the William and Mary Law School. We have a series of student-oriented programs (co-sponsored by the Office of Careers Service),
Tomorrow, lawprof Lee Anne Fennell of the University of Chicago Law School will be presented the Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Prize for her work on “how
Regular readers know that in addition to our focus on Fifth Amendment property rights, we’re also looking at the Fourth Amendment as a vehicle that protects and promotes property rights.
In that vein, here’s a forthcoming article that is worth reading,”The Benefits of the Fourth Amendment’s Property-Rights Baseline,” by lawprof Nicholas Alden Kahn-Fogel.
We don’t see any free public education here.
Some old-school property “sticks” analysis from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Zeven v. Jones, No. 23-35438 (Aug. 23, 2024), worth checking out.
The Idaho Constitution has a “free common schools” clause:
The stability of a republican form of government depending mainly
As we hinted at a couple of weeks ago, we have some good — nay, great — news: the Eminent Domain Podcast, retired earlier this year by its originator Clint Schumacher, is back with a new host and a slightly new title: “Come and Take It: The Eminent Domain Podcast.”
This would not be authorized.
Here’s the latest in an issue that found new vitality after the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Cedar Point affirming that government-authorized physical entry to private property is presumptively a taking.
This is the “precondemnation entry” issue in eminent domain which several courts have addressed: