Regulatory takings

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Just out of the Knick arguments. Full report to come later. But for now, these thoughts:

College of Surgeons – D.O.A. I think there’s a consensus to overrule the case to the extent it allows municipalities to remove takings cases to federal court. 

San Remo – On life support. I think also that there may

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I’m not going to do an in-depth preview of tomorrow’s Supreme Court oral arguments in Knick v. Township of Scott, No. 17-647 for several reasons.

First, a lot of others have summarized the issues already, far better than I can. See the list below.

Second, I filed an amicus brief in the case in

Our colleague and co-planning chair Joe Waldo was in town yesterday, so we walked through historic Williamsburg, Virginia (cradle of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights), to invite you to join us for the 36th Annual ALI-CLE Eminent Domain & Land Valuation Litigation Conference (January 24-26, 2019, in Palm Springs, California).

As we wrote

One more lesson on the speed of the interwebs: we were all set to take a deep dive into the California Court of Appeal’s opinion in an inverse condemnation case, Bottini v. City of San Diego, No. D071670 (Sep. 18, 2018), when our colleague Brad Kuhn analyzed the case at his California Eminent

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Come join us for one of the best conferences on property rights and property law at the 2018 Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference, October 4-5, 2018 at the William and Mary Law School in Williamsburg, Virginia.

Register here

We’ve attended and presented at the Conference in past years, including when it went international in

An interesting and thought-provoking new article from Professor Donald Kochan that is definitely worth your time: The [Takings] Keepings Clause: An Analysis of Framing Effects from Labeling Constitutional Rights, 45 Fla. State U. L. Rev. ___ (forthcoming 2018). 

As the title suggests, Professor Kochan doesn’t quite care for the phrase the “Takings Clause” when

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Here’s the cert petition we’ve been waiting to drop in a case we’ve been following closely

Last we checked in, the Federal Circuit (any guess on which judge?) held that the catastropic Katrina flooding — caused mostly by the federal government’s construction and maintenance of a navigation project, the Mississippi River Gulf-Outlet

Ah, the speed of the interwebs: we were all set to write something up about the California Court of Appeal’s recent opinion in Black v. City of Rancho Palos Verdes, No. B285135 (Sep. 6, 2018), when our friend and colleague Bryan Wenter beat us to it.

His post, “Court Rejects Residents’

After a short hiatus to allow Clint to set up at his new firm, the Eminent Domain Podcast is back. 

Clint was kind enough to ask me to be his first second-time guest, and we had a wide-ranging discussion: everything from this semester’s teaching assignment at the William & Mary Law School, the

Here’s the cert petition, filed yesterday, in a case we’ve been following closely. Here’s our short summary of the case, written up when it was ready for argument in the Hawaii Supreme Court. That court’s ruling against the property owner added to the the lower court split on the issue of whether