If you, like us, went to law school to avoid things like this:
then perhaps this recently-published paper is not going to be your cup of tea.
But seriously, folks, this one might be worth your time, even if you are numbers-challenged, because it is a look at the “holdout” issue from the standpoint of
A must-read from the Oklahoma Court of Appeals. In City of Muskogee v. Phillips, No. 111,501 (Nov. 21, 2014), the court invalidated a taking, concluding that it was not a public use under the Oklahoma Constitution for a city to condemn private property for a parking lot when the primary apparent beneficiary of the
For those of you who couldn’t join us at the William & Mary Law School last month for the Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference (see our report here), the law school has made videos of the four panel presentations available here.
They’re high quality videos, so be prepared for big downloads, but the
Here’s what caught our eye today:
“You can’t have rights without advocates.”
– Michael Berger
We’re at the William and Mary Law School in Williamsburg, Virginia today for the 11th Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference. As we’ve noted earlier, Michael Berger is this
If you haven’t already, please mark you calendars: the agendas and faculty lists for the February 5-7, 2015 ALI-CLE eminent domain programs in San Francisco have been finalized. Registration is ongoing, and there’s even a few more days left for the early registration discount. Substantial group discounts are also available.
We’re talking, of course
Here’s a very important case from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court (Middle District). The question before the court in Reading Area Water Auth. v. Schuylkill River Greenway Ass’n , No. J-13-2014 (Sep. 24, 2014) was this:
The primary question raised is whether a municipal authority may exercise its eminent domain powers to condemn an easement over
We’re tied up in court today, so don’t have time to post up the latest cases which have crossed our desk in the past few days.
We will get to them soon, but in the meantime, check out this story (“The Stubborn ‘Nail Houses’ That Refuse to Get Demolished“) from Gizmodo (a blog about
A reminder: the 11th annual Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference is coming up on October 30-31, 2014, at the William and Mary Law School in Williamsburg, Virginia. As we noted earlier, Michael Berger will receive the Brigham-Kanner Prize, so this one is special – he’s the first practitioner to receive the Prize.
More here, from
After a couple of days detouring to election law, today we’re back to our usual programming.
We caught wind of an upcoming book (September 2014), “Private Property and Public Power: Eminent Domain in Philadelphia,” by Barnard College Professor Deborah Becher. “Her book—the first comprehensive study of a city’s eminent domain acquisitions—explores how