Although it is set to launch this Friday, October 2, 2020, there’s still more than enough time to register (and room at the inn) for you to join us for the 17th Annual Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference at the William and Mary Law School.
Like everything else this season, the Conference is online (
Today, the U.S. Supreme Court is considering our cert petition during the Court’s “long conference.”
This is the case focusing on the interplay between Williamson County‘s “final decision” ripeness rule and the “case and controversy” injury-in-fact standing requirement, and asks: if the government makes its final decision, but the plaintiff isn’t injured until
What place do you think of when you hear the word “earthquake? Most likely California, we’re betting.
And it’s also very likely that you didn’t think “Ohio.”
Well, that’s probably what everyone involved in the Ohio Supreme Court case State ex rel. AWMS Water Solutions, LLC v. Mertz, No. 2019-0493 (Sep. 23, 2020) thought
We’ve been meaning to write up the U.S. Court of Appeals’ decision in a case we’ve been following, Protect Our Parks, Inc v. Chicago Park District, No. 19-2308 (Aug. 231, 2020), but our Illinois colleague Mike Ryan was quicker on the draw.
Rather than summarize Mike’s write up, we simply suggest you go
As if to respond to a sibling federal court’s recent order upholding a covid-reaction shut down orders, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania’s opinion in County of Butler v. Wolf, No.2:20-cv-00677 (Sep. 14, 2020) reaches an entirely different conclusion:
The fact is that the lockdowns imposed across the United States
The District Court’s bottom line in Lukes Catering Service, LLC v. Cuomo, No. 20-CV-1086 (Sep. 10, 2020)? The New York governor’s emergency orders aimed at coronavirus “imposing quarantines, mandating workforce reductions, closing schools, requiring face-coverings, and restricting activities of all types,” are not takings of the businesses of event, banquet, and catering services that
Here’s the amicus brief we filed last week in a case we’ve been following closely, Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid, No. 10-104 (cert. petition filed July 29, 2020).
That’s the case in which a 2-1 Ninth Circuit panel affirmed the dismissal of a complaint for failure to plausibly state a takings claim
Please join us and a panel of expert speakers including our friend and colleague Tony Della Pelle (see the flyer for the complete list), this Thursday, September 10, 2020 at 1pm Eastern Time for the ABA-produced webinar “Governmental Emergency Powers and the Constitutional Implications Arising from Pandemic Orders.”
Free to ABA members,
News just in: we’ve just received confirmation that the Conference will not be in-person in Scottsdale in January 2021, and we’re going online.
Not a big surprise, but still a bit disappointing, and it’s a shame that the circumstances won’t allow us to meet in-person to talk shop and to renew our friendships like we
