Watch Eminent Domain Case: How Can You Take My House? on PBS. See more from Constitution USA with Peter Sagal.
Here’s a video snippet focusing on eminent domain and the Kelo decision, from PBS’s ongoing series on the U.S. Constitution. It’s a somewhat generic view of the issue complete with silly sound effects and graphics
In In re: Condemnation by PPL Electric Utilities Corp., No. 1389 CD 2012 (Pa. Comm’w May 8, 2013), a Pennsylvania state appeals court held the condemnation of property by a utility for a right-of-way to reconstruct electric lines already existing on the land, needed the prior approval of the Public Utilities Commission. The
We generally don’t cover unpublished decisions, but since we’re adding this case to our “to watch” list, we’re making an exception. In 62-64 Main Street, LLC v. Mayor and Council of the City of Hackensack, No. A-3257-11T4 (N.J. Super. May 3, 2013), the Appellate Division of the New Jersey Superior Court held that “the
For those of you attending the Virginia Eminent Domain Conference, here’s the expanded papers on “Tough Takings Questions: Regulatory Takings, Zoning Issues and Judicial Takings” and Public Use issues.
Use the password provided at the conference to open the pdf’s. It’s the same p/w for both. If you forgot the password, email me.
For those who did not attend, sorry folks, there are some benefits to coming to a conference! Y’all are going to have to wait for a bit — after a decent interval to allow the attendees to get their money’s worth, we’ll remove the password.
For more about the cases and books we discussed yesterday during my presentation on “Virginia’s Place in National Eminent Domain Trends, check these out:
Continue Reading Materials From Today’s Virginia Eminent Domain Conference
When reading the Ninth Circuit’s latest foray into the regulatory takings doctrine which holds that a muncipal rent control ordinance did not qualify under Penn Central (MHC Financing Ltd P’ship v. City of San Rafael, No. 07-15983 (Apr. 17, 2013), we were reminded of the opening line in Andy Williams’ signature tune “
When the cert petition was filed in Ilagan v. Ungacta, No. 12-723 (cert. petition filed Dec. 7, 2012), we wrote that the case seemed like a good vehicle for the U.S. Supreme Court to revisit the pretext-in-eminent-domain issue it teased us with in Kelo, especially the part about the taking being part of
Film critic Roger Ebert, whose death was announced yesterday, was a huge fan of our favorite eminent domain movie, Australia’s The Castle. Not so much a fan in the four-star-auteur-director-Fellini-Malick-Herzog mode, but a fan in the sense that when it came time for programming for his personal film festival and others, he selected it
William & Mary Law School, host of the annual Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference, has announced that Columbia Law School Professor Thomas W. Merrill will receive the 2013 B-K Prize at the conference (October 17-18, 2013, Williamsburg, Virginia). The photo above is of the plaque on the wall at the William & Mary Law School
Here’s what’s on our reading list today:
Here’s the Reply Brief in Ilagan v. Ungacta, No. 12-723 (cert. petition filed Dec. 7, 2012), the case in which the Court is considering whether to review the Guam Supreme Court’s opinion applying Kelo v. City of New London, 545 U.S. 469 (2005) to reverse a trial court decision invalidating a taking.
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