Property rights

Here’s the cert petition in a case we’ve been following since it was decided in the property owner’s favor by the Colorado Court of Appeals.

In Carousel Farms Metro. Dist. v. Woodcrest Homes, Inc., 444 P.3d 802 (Colo. App. 2017), the court invalidated an attempt to exercise eminent domain to take property which

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Protip for the public line for SCOTUS arguments: you have to get there really early. As in really early. Before 5 am early. Because that’s the time that we, along with some of our William and Mary Law students (pictured above, after the arguments), arrived at 1 First Street NE to take up our place

Registration underway, so come join us! Agenda full of hot topics in takings and appraisal law! The best national faculty! Renew friendships, and make new colleagues! And Nashville! 

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Dad was from upstate New York. More correctly, a town literally in both New York and Vermont (the state line runs right through the middle of the burg). His mother’s family were old time rural Vermonters, and he shared many of the stereotypical traits of his people – solid, self-reliant, taciturn. Many questions answered solely

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We’re back again at that supposed distinction between the police power and the eminent domain power, which reminds us of that old tale about President Lyndon Johnson:

After reviewing a contingent of Viet Nam-bound Marines in California, Lyndon Johnson strode purposefully toward what he thought was his helicopter. “That’s your helicopter over there, sir,”

Here’s the State of Hawaii’s response to an amicus brief we filed in a case that asks the Hawaii Supreme Court to resolve the question of what statute of limitations governs takings claims under the state constitution. We argued that constitutional claims such as these might not be subject to legislatively-imposed statutes of