Early registration is a good thing because space is limited, especially at the Wren Building banquet on the 26th, at which the 2023 B-K Property Rights
What If The Hawaii Governor’s Cutting Of The Gordian Land Use/Environmental Knot Actually Works?
The two-plus years under the declared Co-19 emergency surely have given Hawaii’s executive-branch officials a clear vision of how much easier they could get their agendas accomplished without all that pesky democracy.
Hawaii’s Sweeping Emergency Management Act: Governor is the “Sole Judge”
Hawaii’s Emergency Management Act gives state and county executives broad and nearly unreviewable
NY App Div: OK To Condemn Blighted Property To Sell To Private Developer
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
New Just Comp Cert Petition: Is Due Process Property Just Compensation Property?
A new cert petition to check out. We don’t need to explain it much, because the petition does a good job of it.
Here’s the Question Presented:
New York State redevelopment agency seized, via eminent domain, a large tract of real estate occupied by an existing building in downtown Brooklyn for redevelopment. The building, partially
Hawaii Supreme Court To Hear Major Severance Damages Appeal In Rail Takings Cases
Update: the court has rescheduled the arguments to June 22, 2023, at 10 a.m.
The Hawaii Supreme Court has scheduled oral arguments in an important eminent domain case about severance damages for the Honolulu Rail Authority’s condemnation of land in Honolulu for one of its stations (assuming, of course, that the under-construction rail line actually
Join Us At The 22d Annual Texas Eminent Domain Conference, April 13-14, Austin
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
Catholic U Law School Student Scholar: “Eychaner v. City of Chicago: Repercussions after The Supreme Court refuses to take up a Takings Clause Reconsideration”
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
IRWA’s Summary Of Major Eminent Domain Cases & Legislation (June-Dec 2022)
The International Right of Way Association‘s Real Estate Law Committee produces twice-a-year reports “which contain summaries of eminent domain decisions and legislation within the United States.”
And what is really nice is that they make the report available.
Here’s the latest.
We’re posting it here because we’re one of the co-authors. Hat tip
A National Zoning Expert Pays A Visit To The L580 Land Use Class At U. Hawaii
The session was recorded.
Here’s the video and audio.
Earlier this week, planner M. Nolan Gray, author of the new book, “Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It” (Island Press 2022) joined our Land Use class at the University of Hawaii Law School to talk
Cases And Links From Today’s Land Use Institute Session: “The Use of Eminent Domain for Redevelopment & Economic Development Projects”
Here are the opinions that we spoke about this afternoon at the Land Use Institute on “The Use of Eminent Domain for Redevelopment & Economic Development Projects.”
- Redevelopment: You Can’t Just Say “Redevelopment” – Take Now, Decide Later Isn’t A Public Use
- Due Process: Before Taking Property, Condemnor Must Provide Notice Reasonably Calculated