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
Want to find out what the experts — including arguing counsel for the property owners, our law firm colleague Damien Schiff — think about the Supreme Court’s recent Clean Water Act decision, Sackett v. EPA. And most importantly, what is next?
You are in luck: on Wednesday, June 7, 2023 at 1:00 – 2:15pm
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,
Here’s the latest in a case we’ve been following since before it became one of ours.
In Gearing v. City of Half Moon Bay, No. 21-16688 (Dec. 8, 2022), the Ninth Circuit upheld the district court’s dismissal of a regulatory takings case, holding that federal courts should abstain from considering regulatory takings cases in
Here’s a don’t miss episode of friend and colleague Clint Schumacher’s Eminent Domain Podcast, featuring our Pacific Legal Foundation colleague Jon Houghton. With a title like “Jon Houghton and his Penn Central Quest,” how can we resist listening?
In this episode, Jon Houghton with Pacific Legal Foundation joins to discuss the
Tyler v. Hennepin County wasn’t the only property rights opinion issued by the Supreme Court in one of my law firm’s cases last week.
There’s this one, which we’ve been waiting a lot longer to drop (oral arguments were held on the first day of the Court’s term back in October), Sackett v. Envt’l
Here are what others are saying about Supreme Court’s recent ruling in Tyler v. Hennepin County, No. 22-166 (U.S. May 25, 2023), the case in which the Court unanimously held that the county’s keeping the excess equity in Ms. Tyler’s home over what she owed in property taxes and fees is an uncompensated taking
If you know, you know.
Pacific Legal Foundation (that’s us) has put out a call for papers about “Rethinking Penn Central.” Here’s the details (pdf).
Here’s some of the suggested topics:
We’ll be rendering unto Caesar, but first we must
decide: classic or creamy?
That was quick: it seems like it was only yesterday — or maybe more accurately, less than a month ago — that we were listening in live to the Supreme Court as it heard arguments in Tyler v. Hennepin County, No.