There’s still time to join us tomorrow, Friday, April 24, 2020 at 2-3pm Eastern Time, they will be presenting “Strategies for Litigating Regulatory Taking Cases” in a webinar produced by ALI-CLE. Register here (multiple attendee discounts available).
At the recent ALI-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation Conference in Nashville, our colleagues
Lacking things to read during your shut-down? Well, we have the solution: the Fordham Urban Law Journal has devoted an entire issue to Knick and takings ripeness (“Taking Account: Procedure, Substance, and Stare Decisis in the Post-Knick World“).
Our article “Sublimating Municipal Home Rule and Separation of Powers in Knick v.
In a case that uses terms that might reasonably lead you to think it was lifted from the script for the next stoner comedy, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, in Gadsden Indus. Park, LLC v. United States, No. 18-2132 (Apr. 22, 2020), held that an owner of land on
Here’s the latest complaint challenging a governmental business shut-down order. In this case, it is an order by the Michigan governor. We’ve seen similar lawsuits recently (see here, here and here, for example). So far, these complaints have have not met with receptive audiences. This one was tossed aside quickly. This one
Here’s the cert petition that along with our colleague Steve Jakubowski we’re filing today in Campbell v. United States, No. 19-___, in which we ask the Court to review the Federal Circuit’s ruling that the plaintiffs in a Court of Federal Claims takings case missed the Tucker Act’s statute of limitations (28 U.S.C. §
Here’s what we’re reading today. Some related to the lockdown, some not:
Unlike a sibling federal court in a similar case (see that court’s TRO order below), a Florida court has declined an emergency motion challenging government officials’ coronavirus-related shut-down and stay away orders.
This is the case we’ve been following in which property owners challenge the local government’s order that they stay off beaches. The difference
This morning, the Supreme Court of Virginia heard oral arguments (by telephone) in a case we’ve been following.
This is an inverse case that asks whether less than a total loss of access to a parcel could be taking — did the owner plead enough to put the issue to a jury — and
Here’s the latest in a case we’ve been following since it was filed just a couple of weeks ago.
This is the one where “Friends of Danny Devito” (no, not that Danny Devito) sued the Pennsylvania governor challenging shut down orders under a variety of theories. Including a takings claim, of course.
To all who joined from Hawaii and across the nation, thank you for doing so. As I mentioned during the webinar, here is the video and links to the cases and other materials I spoke about:
