The long-awaited book from lawprof Eric Claeys, “Natural Property Rights” (Cambridge Press 2025) has dropped.
More, after we’ve had a chance to read it.
Now mind you, in the hardcover edition the thing ain’t exactly cheap (£100 GBP from Cambridge, or $130 from Amazon). But frankly, for an academic
A brief, but important, decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
In Sikorsky v. City of Newbergh, No. 23-1171 (May 2, 2025), the court held that the plaintiff adequately pleaded a regulatory takings claim which was based on Tyler v. Hennepin County, where the U.S. Supreme Court held that
Here’s the latest in a case we’ve been following.
This is Fane Lozman. You know his name. Yes, the guy who has taken on the City of Riviera Beach, Florida twice at the Supreme Court, and is now coming back for a third shot on goal. Houseboat guy. Public hearing gadfly guy
Here’s more on an issue we recently covered involving Texas’s “depopulation” of captive white-tailed deer in order to curb Chronic Wasting Disease. In the earlier opinion, the court held that the owner of a deer-breeding facility did not have a property interest in the deer, and thus could not assert a due process
Check out the new report by our Pacific Legal Foundation colleagues Kyle Sweetland and Brian Hodges, “How to Protect Property Rights from Improperly Assessed Exactions” (Apr. 2025).
This research in brief shows how exactions grew and increased home construction costs over a 16-year period. It provides a history of exactions, showing how
Check out the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit’s opinion in Howard v. Macomb County, No. 24-1655 (Mar. 28, 2025).
This is one of those post-Tyler cases asking whether the government satisfies the Fifth Amendment after it has taken someone’s home equity by satisfying the owner’s tax debt and then keeping
The question in today’s case is an old one: can you own wild animals?
In Texas Parks & Wildlife Dep’t v. RW Trophy Ranch, Ltd., No. 15-24-00112-CV (Apr. 10, 2025), the Texas Court of Appeals said no. At least not when that wild animal is a white-tailed deer.
Here are the facts.
Here’s the latest cert petition from the desk of Michael Berger, a property rights case with an equal protection element.
Demarest wanted to subdivide. Not that big a deal, right? Well, apparently it was. The Petition alleges that the Town had a burr under its saddle about the guy for a while, going back
Check out the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit’s recent opinion in Knellinger v. Young, No. 23-1018 (Apr. 11, 2025).
It’s worth reading because the court doesn’t fall into the common trap of concluding that although an owner need not exhaust administrative remedies before asserting a takings claim, he nonetheless doesn’t have
Here’s the latest in a case we’ve been following closely (and disclosure: our firm filed an amicus brief in the Texas Supreme Court).
First, the bottom line: in The Commons at Lake Houston, Ltd. v. City of Houston, No. 23-0474 (Mar. 21, 2025), the Texas Supreme Court held that merely because a regulation