Hat tip: the Clancy Brothers‘ “They’re Moving Father’s Grave to Build a Sewer” (via Gideon Kanner). As we noted in our earlier post, life has imitated art: Chicago is seeking to take cemetery and move the graves in order to expand O’Hare airport.
As reported here (“High court ducks battle between
The ABA has announced the forthcoming publication of a new book by the State and Local Government Law Section: At the Cutting Edge 2010: Land Use Law from The Urban Lawyer, edited by my colleague Dwight H. Merriam, and which is “[a]n essential resource for practitioners, planning professionals and students, this book provides
On January 13 and 14, 2011, I’ll be leading two sessions in the fifth Hawaii Land Use Law conference. This one only comes around every two years, so this is your chance to get updated on the hottest topics by a stellar faculty.
My sessions will cover Coastal Issues (which includes shoreline boundary, takings
I’m an alum of Columbia University (LLM, 1995), so I’m on the list to receive the semi-regular emails sent out by the law school and the alumni association, informing me about a recent faculty hire, or containing the latest plea to enhance the endowment.
So today, I get this from University president Lee Bollinger, about
The Court has denied certiorari in Tuck-It-Away, Inc. v. New York State Urban Dev. Corp., No. 10-402 (cert. petition filed Sep. 21, 2010), the case about the New York State Urban Development Corporation’s attempt to take property for a new Columbia campus.
Thursday-Saturday, February 17-19, 2011, come join us for the 28th annual presentation of the advanced-level ALI-ABA Course of Study, Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation, and the sixth annual presentation of the basic-level ALI-ABA Course of Study, Condemnation 101: Making the Complex Simple in Eminent Domain, both at the Hyatt Regency in Coral Gables
The Columbia Spectator, the student newspaper of Columbia University has a story about Tuck-It-Away, Inc. v. New York State Urban Dev. Corp., No. 10-402 (cert. petition filed Sep. 21, 2010), the case about the New York State Urban Development Corporation’s attempt to take property for a new Columbia campus, which is up
SCOTUSblog has listed in Tuck-It-Away, Inc. v. New York State Urban Dev. Corp., No. 10-402 (cert. petition filed Sep. 21, 2010) as a “Petition to Watch” (scroll down to the fourth case) for tomorrow’s conference. The results of the conference should be released on Monday morning.
SCOTUSblog has posted most the cert stage
On his indispensable blog Atlantic Yards Report, journalist Norman Oder has posted a comprehensive summary of the issues in the Columbia eminent domain case, which is scheduled to be considered at the Supreme Court’s conference this Friday, December 10, 2010.
In In effort to get Supreme Court to hear Columbia eminent domain case,
The property owner has filed its Reply to the Brief in Opposition in Tuck-It-Away, Inc. v. New York State Urban Dev. Corp., No. 10-402 (cert. petition filed Sep. 21, 2010). That’s the case in which upper Manhattan property owners have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review the decision of the New York Court