Strong letter to follow!
A long-ish read (32 single-spaced pages) from the Federal Circuit in City of Fresno v. United States, No. 22-1994 (Dec. 17, 2024), but worth reading.
Not only will you get a crash course in how water is allocated in California’s vast central valley (as the billboards above, set up along
Check out the opinion of the Court of Federal Claims in Nix v. United States, No. 23-704C (Dec. 11, 2024). Fascinating stuff.
We post it here not because it breaks new ground, but due to the subject matter of the lawsuit: the alleged taking of a film that captures (in part) the assassination of
We’ve been following a Second Amendment case, Hawaii v. Wilson, as it awaited the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision whether to accept review. Not because it is relevant to the usual subjects of this blog, but because a friend and colleague is Counsel of Record for the petitioner, and we’re just naturally interested in cases
The latest state supreme court decision involving a takings challenge to a statute permitting precondemnation entries, this time from Iowa.
In Summit Carbon Solutions, LLC v. Kasischke, No. 23-1186 (Nov. 22, 2024), the Iowa Supreme Court concluded that, at least on its face, Iowa’s entry statute for hazardous liquid pipelines, which permits
Lake Worth: the “lago” in Mar-a-Lago
You know his name. He’s taken on the City of Riviera Beach twice at the U.S. Supreme Court. And won both times. The houseboat that isn’t a boat. The government can’t shut you out from speaking your mind simply because you irritate them.
That’s right, it’s Fane
Get ready to join your colleagues and friends in San Diego for the 42d ALI-CLE Eminent Domain & Land Valuation Litigation Conference.
The 41st Conference was in New Orleans. Here’s a report of that event, and here are our reports from prior conferences in Austin and Scottsdale.
Here are some of the
Here are the cases and other materials we discussed in today’s Section of State & Local Government Law Land Use group meeting on takings:
Here’s the latest in a case we’ve been following. This morning, in this Order, the Supreme Court denied cert in two cases which seemed to have a good chance at a grant, on two pressing issues which have divided lower courts, the physical occupation in tenancies (aka Yee), and the nature of the
Today’s must-read, a (very) recent article by our Pacific Legal Foundation colleague John Groen, published in the Touro Law Review, “Takings, Original Meaning, and Applying Property Law Principles to Fix Penn Central.”
With a title like that, who could resist? Here’s the Abstract:
Justice Clarence Thomas, dissenting
