No, it’s not the latest economic development project, but an item we’ve reported on earlier: Jeff Benedict’s “Little Pink House” book about the Kelo case is being turned into a movie. Here’s a Reason interview with one of the movie’s producers explaining why the story attracted them, and what we can expect from
Worth Reading: “Looking Back Ten Years After Kelo”
Here’s an article by IJ’s Dana Berliner, a retrospective on public use in eminent domain and where the decade since Kelo has left us.
It is a sign of the constitutional damage Kelo caused that these two related features of the opinion—blind deference and the refusal to engage with facts—have marked post-Kelo jurisprudence.
SC AG: Oil And Gas Pipelines Probably Can’t Exercise Eminent Domain Like Telephone Companies
The Solicitor General of South Carolina has issued this opinion letter, answering the following three questions about a state statute which “purports to confer all rights, powers, and privileges given to telegraph and telephone companies” to pipeline companies:
- Since S.C. Code § 58-7-10 et seq. appears to mainly concern waterworks, sewage disposal, and natural
Land Use Institute: Planning, Regulation, Litigation, Eminent Domain, and Compensation – 31st Annual Conference, Chicago, July 30, 2015
The Land Use Institute, a program that for many years has been planned by co-chairs Frank Schnidman and Gideon Kanner, has found a new home with the American Bar Association’s Section of State and Local Government Law as the main sponsor. It also has a new Planning co-chair, Dean Patty Salkin of Touro Law
2016 ALI-CLE Eminent Domain Conference, Austin: Hotel Now Taking Reservations
The hotel reservations link for the 2016 ALI-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation and Condemnation 101 Conference is now live.
Reserve your hotel room now, via this link to ensure that you have a spot in the conference hotel. [note: link updated 7/8/2015]
We’re still working on the agenda and faculty, but here are the
Worth Reading: An “Economic Liberty” Decision From The Texas Supreme Court, With Lessons For Eminent Domain
Attend any talk by a judge which includes legal writing tips, and there’s sure to be this one: keep it as short as is necessary to make your points. Justice Kennedy’s remark that “I never read a brief I couldn’t put down in the middle” and Chief Justice Roberts noting “I can’t
Kelo At 10: Still Stinks, And A Decade Has Not Lessened The Odor
In case you somehow missed it, takings junkies, today, June 23, 2015, is the tenth anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s excreable 5-4 decision in Kelo v. City of New London, 545 U.S. 469 (2005), and just about anyone who is anyone in our field has weighed in with a retrospective. We don’t have much
Raisin Round-Up
Update: here’s more Horne talk, in addition to our own initial thoughts in the above video and this post (“Magna Raisins: 8-1 SCOTUS Says There’s A Taking, But Not All Agree On Remedy“):
- “Today’s Other Supreme Court Property Rights Decision” (our post about City of Los Angeles v. Patel, No.
Upcoming Conference On Kelo’s 10th Anniversary
Hardly seems like a decade ago that the Supreme Court gave us eminent domain lawyers something to talk about at cocktail parties: the Court’s infamous and widely-hated decision in Kelo v. City of New London.
Find out about what the intervening ten years has brought us from the Cato Institute, which is sponsoring a
Eminent Domain Docfilm “Battle For Brooklyn” Now Streaming
Those of you who have followed the blog for a while know that we’re big fans of the documentary film about the Atlantic Yards eminent domain fight in New York, “Battle for Brooklyn.” See our review here, for example.
If you haven’t had a chance