Here’s the amicus brief we filed today on behalf of our colleagues at Owners’ Counsel of America, urging the U.S. Supreme Court to grant cert in Marvin M. Brandt Revocable Trust v. United States, No. 12-1173 (cert. petition filed Mar. 22, 2013).
That petition asks the Court to review a Tenth Circuit
Our colleague Mark M. Murakami has published the first in a series of posts on his blog about legal issues surrounding the multi-billion dollar Honolulu rail project, “Honolulu Rail and the Uniform Relocation Act.”
Because the HART rail project will involve federal funds, federal laws and regulations provide property owners (and their tenants)
Our Owners’ Counsel of America colleague Michael Rikon and his law firm have launched a new blog, “Bulldozers at Your Doorstep – A National Blog on Eminent Domain.”
The blog will give us Michael’s and his colleagues’ view of eminent domain and condemnation issues from their unique New York perspective, from lawyers who
Ever since the U.S. Supreme Court’s infamous decision in Kelo v. City of New London, 545 U.S. 469 (2005), the focus of eminent domain scholarship and the public have been on the public use side of the condemnation equation.
However interesting those issues are (and they truly are), practitioners of eminent domain law understand
Here are the cases and links that I discussed at today’s ABA session on eminent domain:
When does a party who loses a petition for rehearing actually win it?
In Bywaters v. United States, No. 2011-1032 (Fed. Cir. Mar. 1, 2012) an opinion we detailed here, a 2-1 panel of the Federal Circuit held that the property owner’s request for attorneys fees under the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real
Here’s today’s second decision about attorneys fees and costs, this time in an inverse condemnation claim out of the Federal Circuit, Bywaters v. United States, No. 2011-1032 (Mar. 1, 2012).
In a class action rails-to-trails takings case under the Little Tucker Act (less than $10,000 per claim, district court venue), the trial court awarded