Redevelopment

Thanks to colleague Chris Kramer, we’ll be speaking later this week (Friday, May 4, 2018) in Phoenix at the 22nd Condemnation Summit at the Arizona Biltmore.

Our session will cover “Condemnation Trends: Nationwide & Arizona.” The rest of the day’s agenda looks mighty good too, with session on valuation of easements, paying for

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We’re in Detroit the rest of the week at the Mercy Law School for the venerable Land Use Institute, now in its 32nd iteration.

Planning Chair Frank Schnidman has assembled a great faculty including out Detroit colleague Alan Ackerman (above, talking about takings liability for flooding), and we’ll be spending the time talking inverse

When the city condemned a portion of CED’s property back in 2012 for a highway project (replacing an intersection with a roundabout), the city’s appraiser testified that the taking did not confer any “special benefits” to CED’s remainder parcel. Eventually, CED and the city settled the case and the city paid agreed-upon compensation and severance

Space is filling up, but there’s still time to join us later this month in Detroit for the 32nd Annual Land Use Institute (April-19-20). 

We’ll let program Planning Chair Frank Schnidman explain all the reasons why, and we’ll add only these points: (1) it’s a very good program that won’t take much of your time

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This fall, I’ll be teaching a new course at the William and Mary Law School in Williamsburg, Virginia.

Here’s the description of Property Rights: Law and Theory (Law 608) from the course catalog:

Property rights and property theory have been essential components of Anglo-American law for centuries, and the protection of the right of

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Here’s the printable brochure with the details on the 32nd Annual Land Use Institute in Detroit, April 19-20, 2018. We’ve plugged the program before so we won’t do so again, except to say that you really should attend because (1) it’s a very good program that won’t take much of your time (fly in for

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Mark your calendars, plan to come: Detroit, April 19-20, 2018. For what is perhaps the best deal in CLE (tuition as low as $400), the 32d Annual Land Use Institute, sponsored by our section of the ABA, the Section of State and Local Government Law.

The venue is the

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Mr. Song’s tale is harrowing: His property targeted for redevelopment. Offered compensation, but he believed that local regulations required payment of at least 45% more. When he attempted to negotiate, local officials said no deal. So he organized a protest at which he and his neighbors held signs that said things like “opposed to forced demolition.&rdquo

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Here’s an important case we’ve been following out of Louisiana. 

The case is an appeal to the Louisiana Supreme Court in an expropriation case from a quick-take of a Mississippi River docking facility downriver from New Orleans. The Port took the entire VDP facility, made no change in how the property was used, and

Our upcoming American Law Institute-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation Conference in Charleston, South Carolina has SOLD OUT our in-person registrations. 

We will have a record attendance (with over 100 first-time attendees) and the conference hotel has informed us that we can fit no more people in the meeting rooms. We cannot remember this