Missed out on the 2021 ALI-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation Conference swag?
Well fear not: here’s your chance to get your high-class reminder — a kit of road warrior essentials — to save the Conference date on your calendar. We’re already underway with planning the agenda and faculty, so it’s never too soon
Here’s the video of the OA held this morning (March 10, 2020) in a case we’ve been following, about the statute of limitations governing inverse claims. Maryland Reclamation Association filed an regulatory takings claim in 2013, and eventually the jury awarded a whopping $45 million in just compensation and interest. Hartford County asserted the
Here are the final cert-stage briefs in a case we’ve been following for what seems to be a long time.
We say that because we represented the property owner the last time it was up before SCOTUS, when we came tantalizingly close to making the cut.
After the Court denied review, the property
At the recent ALI-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation Conference in Nashville, our colleagues, New York’s Jon Houghton and Hawaii’s Dave Day presented a very informative program on litigating regulatory takings cases. Jon is a property owner-side lawyer, while Dave is a Deputy Attorney General who represents the State of Hawaii in such
Here’s the latest in a long-running, multi-forum takings case about the development of affordable housing on the Big Island of Hawaii.
Last we saw, the District Court awarded nominal compensation ($1), after the jury concluded that the State of Hawaii took Aina Lea’s property. The parties cross-appealed: the State argues the district court should have
As we briefly noted in this post, before we departed the ALI-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation Conference in Nashville, we just had to stop by the subdivision that was at issue in the Williamson County litigation.
Frankly, there’s nothing especially special or noteworthy about this place, and only takings nerds will truly
Please mark your calendars and join us next Tuesday, February 11, 2020 at 12:30pm ET for the free (for members of the ABA’s Real Property, Trust and Estate Section) webinar, the monthly “Professors’ Corner.”
This one will be on the aftermath of Knick v. Township of Scott, 139 S. Ct. 2162 (2019), in which
Having just wrapped the 2020 ALI-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation Conference in Nashville (very successfully, but more on that later), we could not depart the area without paying a visit to the site of the late-and-not-so-great Williamson County case, in a nearby suburb (we’ll also have more on that later, once we’re back
Picture 1: how normal people see pie.
Picture 2: how you see pie if you’re coming to the
ALI-CLE Eminent Domain Conference.
If you get the above, you probably are already set to join us next week for the 37th Annual ALI-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation Conference in Nashville. (If not, shame on
If there’s one downside to the law school experience from the teacher’s side of the lectern, it’s grading. Especially at a law school like William and Mary that has a pretty strict mandatory curve.
In an upper-division course like “Eminent Domain and Property Rights Law,” where we’re dealing with some very high-level