Here are some of the stories and analysis about yesterday’s ruling by the Court of Federal Claims holding the federal government liable for a taking for the flooding following Hurricane Harvey in the Houston area:
We won’t go into the details of the Court of Federal Claims’ opinion and order in In re Upstream Addicks and Barker (Texas) Flood Control Reservoirs, No. 17-9001L (Dec. 17, 2019), since it is 46 single-spaced pages long. You can (and should) read the entire thing. But we shall highlight of a few of
This time last week, we were sitting in the North Carolina Supreme Court’s (very beautiful) courtroom, above, having just observed oral arguments in a case we’ve been following for quite a while, Chappell v. NCDOT, No. 51PA19 (docket here).
This case is the follow up (after remand) of the N.C. Supreme Court’s
Here’s the latest on the judicial takings/rent control case which we’ve been following.
This is the case where New York property owners assert that the N.Y. Court of Appeals’ decision which concluded that the luxury apartments (which were never formerly subject to rent control) are now governed by the Rent Stabilization Law. This
Here’s the amicus brief we filed yesterday in a public use case we’ve been following that asks whether pretext and private benefit are irrelevant as long as the condemnor invokes a “classic” public use. In this case, the Colorado Supreme Court overturned the court of appeals’ conclusion that even though the purported purpose of the
Yesterday, our friends and colleagues at the Institute for Justice (Diana Simpson and Bob McNamara) welcomed us to their studios to record an episode of the “Short Circuit” podcast.
We talked property, takings, Virginia oysters, the cert petition about Colorado eminent domain abuse, and how the Supreme Court of the
We are noted for our ability to find takings and property issues nearly anywhere, and two cases argued today at the Supreme Court — where we had the pole position in the Bar line as the above photo proves — are no exception, even though the first was a case about a tax refund, and
Following up on the petition, filed last Friday, asking the Virginia Supreme Court to review a trial court’s demurrer which failed to recognize that the owners of a state lease to harvest oysters in the Nansemond River have a property interest . The court concluded that the city and santitation district possess a superior
Just filed: this Petition for Appeal in a case which our William and Mary Law class has a special interest in.
The above photo was taken a couple of weeks ago, when we paid a visit to the property owner/plaintiffs, the owners of a long-standing oyster business operating out of the City of Suffolk, Virginia.