Property rights

Screenshot 2023-06-16 at 17-28-39 TJB SC Orders & Opinions 2023 June June 16 2023

In this order, the Texas Supreme Court declined to review a case we’ve been following, in which the court of appeals held that Grapevine’s total ban on short-term renting of property — banning even owners who had been doing so for a while — might be a taking. The court held that even

Here’s the cert petition, filed last week, in a case we’ve posted about. See here (Ninth Circuit arguments) and here (en banc petition).

The Ninth Circuit affirmed dismissal of a takings claim because (it held) the claim isn’t ripe. The government hasn’t made up its mind, and just might allow the owners to

Screenshot 2023-06-16 at 07-52-47 How Did Property Rights Fare at the Supreme Court What Happened in the 2022 Term and What's Next ALI CLE

On Wednesday, August 9, 2023 at 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. (Eastern Time), please join us for ALI-CLE’s web program, “How Did Property Rights Fare at the Supreme Court? What Happened in the 2022 Term and What’s Next.”

Here’s the course description:

This has been a blockbuster U.S. Supreme Court term for property law

Here’s what we’re reading this Tuesday:

Missed our law firm colleagues Jeff McCoy, Damien Schiff, and Christina Martin when they were live, talking about their SCOTUS wins in Wilkins v. United States (is the statute of limitations in federal Quiet Title Act cases a jurisdictional bar?), Sackett v. E.P.A. (scope of Clean Water Act wetlands jurisdiction), and Tyler v. Hennepin County

Rindge

Continuing in our line of posts noting milestones in dirt law, we bring you Rindge Co. v. County of Los Angeles, 262 U.S. 700 (1923), decided 100 years ago today.

For any of you who have driven the Pacific Coast Highway through Malibu, you will know the site of this eminent domain

A new cert petition to check out. We don’t need to explain it much, because the petition does a good job of it.

Here’s the Question Presented:

New York State redevelopment agency seized, via eminent domain, a large tract of real estate occupied by an existing building in downtown Brooklyn for redevelopment. The building, partially

Bear
The (allegedly) offending Bear Number 119.

Check this out.

As reported in the Law360 story, “Does A Bear Film In The Woods? Couple’s Suit Says Yes,” a Connecticut property owner has filed this federal court complaint asserting that state game and fish officials tagged a wild bear and turned it into a state-sponsored,