The New York Appellate Division’s opinion in Huntley Power, LLC v. Town of Tonawanda, No. 22-011460 (June 9, 2023), is typically short (6 pages, including a dissent).
The town instituted eminent domain proceedings to take Huntley’s riverfront property, including an electric plant decommissioned in 2016, and water intake structures. The asserted public use is
Before you get too excited by the headline and think this is a Kelo issue, a word of caution: this short one from the Oklahoma Supreme Court is on a really niche topic: private condemnations that permit the private owner of property to institute a private-benefit taking to force a neighbor to sell an interest
At first, the Iowa Supreme Court’s opinion in Juckette v. Iowa Utilities Board, No. 21-1788 (June 16, 2023) looks like a promising read. The issue — is a utility expanding its use of an express road easement to install electric lines a taking? — is one that we’ve been following.
But by the
Continuing in our line of posts noting milestones in dirt law, we bring you Rindge Co. v. County of Los Angeles, 262 U.S. 700 (1923), decided 100 years ago today.
For any of you who have driven the Pacific Coast Highway through Malibu, you will know the site of this eminent domain
Missed out on the 2023 ALI-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation Conference back in February in Austin, and the legendary “Condemnation 101” track?
Well, here’s your chance to get the knowledge. On May 18, 2023, ALI-CLE is going live with a rebroadcast of that program, including real-time Q & A
Good crowd.
Here are the cases and other materials we spoke about on Friday at the 22d Annual Texas Eminent Domain Conference, in Austin. A big thank you to the Planning Chairs and to our friends at CLE International for the speaking invite.
Come join us on Thursday, April 27, 2023, from 5-7pm, downtown Honolulu, to celebrate the retirement of Professor David L. Callies from the University of Hawaii Law School.
Join U.H. Law School Dean Camille Nelson, Professor Callies’ colleagues, his students (present and former), the Hawaii legal community, and family and friends as we honor
If you are in the Austin area (or anywhere in Texas for that matter), please consider joining us April 13 and 14, 2023 for the 22d Annual Texas Eminent Domain Conference.
Two days of great programming and talking shop, plus a chance to connect and re-connect with friends and colleagues. And, of course, all
A short one today from the Wisconsin Court of Appeals.
In Sojenhomer LLC v. Village of Egg Harbor, No. 2021AP1589 (Mar. 14, 2023), the court held that when a statute prohibits the use of eminent domain to acquire property for a “pedestrian way,” the village cannot take for a sidewalk.
Seems pretty obvious, no?
Remember that case from a couple of years back, where the Supreme Court, by a tantalizingly close vote, declined to grant a cert petition seeking review of an Illinois decision that preventing future blight was a sufficiently public use to support a redevelopment taking?
A law student at Catholic U. law school recently made a