Here’s what we’re reading today:
We’re in Detroit the rest of the week at the Mercy Law School for the venerable Land Use Institute, now in its 32nd iteration.
Planning Chair Frank Schnidman has assembled a great faculty including out Detroit colleague Alan Ackerman (above, talking about takings liability for flooding), and we’ll be spending the time talking inverse
Spoiler alert! This one doesn’t have a happy ending.
Space is filling up, but there’s still time to join us later this month in Detroit for the 32nd Annual Land Use Institute (April-19-20).
We’ll let program Planning Chair Frank Schnidman explain all the reasons why, and we’ll add only these points: (1) it’s a very good program that won’t take much of your time
We don’t usually post up trial court rulings, preferring to wait until the issue percolates up through the food chain. But this one is an exception, because, well, it’s darned interesting, and we wanted to get you all on board on the ground floor.
Here’s the trial court’s order granting the plaintiffs/property owners summary judgment
Here’s the cert petition in a case we’ve been following out of the Tenth Circuit involving an attempt by a private utility company to take property which is now partly tribal land.
In Public Service Co. of New Mexico v. Barboan, 857 F.3d 1101 (10th Cir. 2017), there wasn’t a question that a federal
We always were glad biology prevented us from hearing what others were thinking. Because if we were able to know what people really thought, we might not like each other very much.
Well, the internet — Twitter in particular — has broken through the biology and given us that opportunity, all in 160+ characters. The
Here’s the printable brochure with the details on the 32nd Annual Land Use Institute in Detroit, April 19-20, 2018. We’ve plugged the program before so we won’t do so again, except to say that you really should attend because (1) it’s a very good program that won’t take much of your time (fly in for
In Bayberry Cove Children’s Land Trust v. Town of Steuben, No. Was-17-258 (Feb. 27, 2018), the Maine Supreme Judicial Court considered whether the Town’s exercise of eminent domain to take an interest to a road the public had apparently been using for decades (if not centuries) was for public use.
A 2013 survey, however
Mark your calendars, plan to come: Detroit, April 19-20, 2018. For what is perhaps the best deal in CLE (tuition as low as $400), the 32d Annual Land Use Institute, sponsored by our section of the ABA, the Section of State and Local Government Law.
The venue is the