Check out the U.S. Court of Appeals’ opinion in Andrews v. Mentor, No. 20-4030 (Aug. 25, 2021).
Property owners sought rezoning of their land from R-4 to “Village Green – RVG,” a higher density zone, so that the owners could build single-family homes. Under R-4, the maximum number of homes was 13 and had
On one hand, the U.S. Court of Appeals’ opinion in Buending v. Town of Redington Beach, No. 20-11354 (Aug. 20, 2021) is not a big deal, at least in terms of the issue in the case: did the Town take the plaintiffs’ private beach property when it adopted an ordinance allowing the public to
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Here’s what we’re reading today, a recently-published law review article by Brendan Mackesey, The Dawn of a Judicial Takings Doctrine: Stop the Beach Renourishment, Inc. v. Florida Department of Environmental Protection, 75 U. Miami L. Rev. 798 (2021).
Here’s the Abstract:
In Stop the Beach Renourishment v. Florida Department of Environmental Protection, 130
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The hits keep coming. There have already been complaints alleging takings against the feds for the CDC eviction moratorium, and against the State of California for its moratorium.
Now this, a complaint against the City of Angels alleging that its version of the moratorium works a taking, either a per se physical invasion taking, a
Here’s what we’re reading today. And this is one of those articles that you should not miss.
Our W&M colleague Katherine Mims Crocker has published “Reconsidering Section 1983’s Nonabrogation of Sovereign Immunity,” 73 Fla. L. Rev. 523 (2021).
Why is this a “must read” you ask? Because Professor Crocker concludes, “[t]he preceding Parts
According to that trustworthy source Wikipedia, in drama, the term deus ex machina (“God from the machine”) “is a plot device whereby a seemingly unsolvable problem in a story is suddenly and abruptly resolved by an unexpected and unlikely occurrence. Its function is generally to resolve an otherwise irresolvable plot situation, to surprise the
You just have to love any case that starts with the sentence, “Dried mangoes form the core of this commercial dispute, which involves a Fifth Amendment challenge…” Shades of Horne!
Well, you can add mangoes to your “healthy snack” list (hat tip CJ Roberts) and include the Supreme Court of Guam’s opinion