Yes, it’s our old favorite, the Australian eminent domain comedy, The Castle (our review herefirst Law Film Festival, and were in good company: Ebert also loved the movie).
The most recent edition of the ABA Journal, features “12 pivotal movie scenes with lessons for lawyers.” The lesson we learn from
Here’s more on a post in May in which we suggested you should get your hands on a copy of Professor Gideon Kanner’s latest article, Detroit and the Decline of Urban America, 2013 Mich. St. L. Rev. 1547 (2014). He writes about the role of eminent domain as one of the six factors contributing to
Like a visiting relative who won’t go home, the idea to seize underwater-but-performing mortgages is still hanging on. The llatest chapter is brought to us by way of our New York colleague Mike Rikon, who writes:
At a press conference on the steps of City Hall, City Council members and housing advocacy groups called
The Utah DOT took all 15 acres of Carlson’s property even though it needed only 1.2 acres for the project. Why? Because it wanted to “avoid[] litigation regarding Carlson’s severance damages.” Well, that’s mighty good of them to want to keep it simple.
Carlson, however, objected on two grounds. First, he asserted that a Utah
Little Pink House, Jeff Benedict’s book about the Kelo v. City of New London case, looks like it is going to become a feature film.
Earlier, we heard it was going to be a TV (Lifetime) movie with Brooke Shields in the protagonist role, but it appears that they’re going for
ALI-CLE, the good folks who put on the annual programs on Eminent Domain and Land Valuation, and Condemnation 101: How to Prepare and Present an Eminent Domain Case, have announced the dates and venue for the 2015 conferences:
Thursday – Saturday, February 5-7, 2015
Hotel Nikko, in San Francisco.
Those
Here’s a quick update on a recent post about an Orlando church which is being targeted by the city so it can build a new stadium for a privately-owned soccer franchise.
Turns out the church has hired our Owners’ Counsel colleague and friend Andrew Brigham, and will be opposing the taking on public use
Our friends and colleagues over at RLUIPA Defense blog Evan Seeman and Dwight Merriam have posted on a case is generating some media attention, and might be interesting to watch.
Orlando wants — what else — a new sports venue. A soccer stadium. And the city is using — what else — eminent domain to get
You remember Battle for Brooklyn, the documentary which chronicles the eminent domain fight over New York’s Atlantic Yards project? (Read our review of the film here to refresh your recollection.)
Well here’s the latest chapter. Or perhaps “epilogue” is more appropriate, because the former property owners have long since been evicted, the homes have
…No, not Sgt. Pepper. It was on this day in 1984 that the U.S. Supreme Court issued its 8-0 decision in Hawaii Housing Authority v. Midkiff, 467 U.S. 229 (1984), as this article (“Today in 1984: SCOTUS Upholds Hawaii Land Redistribution Eminent Domain Plan“) correctly notes.
Check it out. The author, “an