Property rights

Here’s the cert petition, filed today by SCOTUS superstar Paul Clement in a case we’ve been following out of Northern California.

Here are the Questions Presented:

This case involves a stretch of private property along the California coast known as Martins Beach. The California Coastal Commission and the County of San Mateo want Martins

At the recent ALI-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation Conference in Charleston, South Carolina, we held an after-hours preview of the upcoming feature film about the Kelo case, “Little Pink House.” (Based on Jeff Benedict’s book, which we reviewed here.)

The filmmakers graciously allowed us to preview it at the

Here’s the latest in a case we’ve been following out of Louisiana, involving a local Port’s power to seize a Mississippi River docking facility downriver from New Orleans. The Port took the entire VDP facility, made no change in how the property was used, and eventually turned over operation of the facility to

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Mr. Song’s tale is harrowing: His property targeted for redevelopment. Offered compensation, but he believed that local regulations required payment of at least 45% more. When he attempted to negotiate, local officials said no deal. So he organized a protest at which he and his neighbors held signs that said things like “opposed to forced demolition.&rdquo

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Here’s the (draft) article from our poriton of the first panel at the 2017 Brigham-Kanner Conference, “Back to the Future of Land Use Regulation.” (Also posted on SSRN here.)

This is an expanded version of our talk (listen to the audio here) during the Conference during which the William

Here is the video of last Friday’s oral arguments in a case we’ve been following, in which the owners of a mobile home park successfully challenged a California municipality’s rent control ordinance as a taking.

In Colony Cover Properties v. City of Carson, a U.S. District Court for the Central District of California jury

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Check this out: the first page of the recently-filed Reply Brief in the cert-stage briefing in a case we’ve been following out of the Colorado courts, and which we highlighted at the ALI-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation Conference which we wrapped just last week in Charleston, South Carolina.

Talked about last week

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Here’s an important case we’ve been following out of Louisiana. 

The case is an appeal to the Louisiana Supreme Court in an expropriation case from a quick-take of a Mississippi River docking facility downriver from New Orleans. The Port took the entire VDP facility, made no change in how the property was used, and

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We’re on our third day at the 2018 ALI-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Conference in Charleston, SC, and as usual, we’re having our headline presentations by takings guru Michael Berger (pictured above), who is updating us on the most interesting and important cases of the past year, and Jim Burling, who will

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This morning, at the 2018 ALI-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation Conference in Charleston, South Carolina, we announced the dates and venue for the 2019 Conference: Palm Springs, California.

The conference hotel is the Renaissance Palm Springs Hotel, which has the advantage of being a resort facility, but right in town (so you