A question for those of you who do a lot of straight condemnation work: do you drive roads and highways with a slightly different outlook than the rest of the motoring public, especially on those roads where you represented a property owner defending against eminent domain? While others see signs and intersections and the like
(Video) There’s Still Room At The Upcoming ALI-CLE Eminent Domain & Land Valuation Litigation Conference, San Diego, Jan. 26-28, 2017
Complete information, including registration, faculty, and agenda, here.
New Law Review Article: “Time to Make Lemonade from the Lemons of the Kelo Case”
We all know that the Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision in Kelo is lousy. See “Kelo at 10: Still Stinks, And A Decade Has Not Lessened The Odor.”
Or at least most of us know that. But other than crying in our beer, or trying to get the case overruled (efforts continue!)
Details: ALI-CLE Eminent Domain And Land Valuation Conference – San Diego, January 26-28, 2017
We’ve teased some of the details on the 2017 ALI-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation and Condemnation 101 Conference, to be held at the Westin San Diego, January 26-28, 2017, but here are the details you’ve been waiting for.
This is the “big one,” our annual 3-day festival of all things eminent domain
Eminent Domain Programming At The ABA Annual Meeting
We’re experiencing the madness that is the ABA Annual Meeting — this time in San Francisco — hanging with colleagues from the State and Local Government Law Section (where we’re slated to be the Chair-Elect this year), and at the Council of Appellate Lawyers. These meetings are a lot of … meetings .. but there’s
Holdouts And Regrades, Seattle Style
As readers know, from time to time, we undertake what might be called “eminent domain tourism” — visiting the sites of famous and infamous cases when we’re in the neighborhood. Hadacheck, Kaiser Aetna, Nollan, Dolan, and PruneYard, for example.
Perhaps the best illustration of the “holdout” comes from Seattle (see
Docfilm “Exodus” – The Stories Of Those Being Displaced By Eminent Domain
Another neighborhood gone, more lives scattered by eminent domain. Watch or listen.
More on the film and the background of the situation in St. Louis here.
6th Cir: Avoid Your RLUIPA Problems By Condemning Church-Owned Property, Then Selling It “to a buyer that the government thinks offers superior economic benefits”
Check out this post (“Did the Sixth Circuit Unintentionally Adopt an RLUIPA Equal Terms Test?“) from RLUIPA gurus Evan Seeman, Karla Chaffee, and Dwight Merriam on their RLUIPA Defense blog, analyzing the Sixth Circuit’s recent opinion in Tree of Life Christian Schools v. City of Upper Arlington, No. 14-3469 (May 18, 2016).
Hadacheck Revisited: The More Things Stay The Same Dep’t…
Earlier this week, we posted our visit to the site of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Hadacheck v. Sebastian, 239 U.S. 394 (1915). It’s been over 100 years since that case was decided by the Court, but to Hinga Mbogo, the Dallas auto mechanic profiled in the above video from the Institute for
ALI-CLE 2016 Eminent Domain Conference, First Day: Standing Room Only, National Expertise
Here’s what’s going on today, the first day of the 33d annual ALI-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation conference in Austin, Texas. We’re at standing room only, with a record number of attendees and our usual nationally renown faculty.
We started off the day with our usual “Eminent Domain Update” session with Amy