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Illinois adopted a statute that tweaked public pensions:

On January 1, 2020, Public Act 101-610 became effective and amended, in pertinent part, portions of the pension code to consolidate all applicable local police and firefighter pension fund assets into two statewide pension investment funds, one for police and the other for firefighters. Pursuant to the

Don’t miss out!

We promise: this is the last time we’re going to try to entice you to the upcoming ALI-CLE Eminent Domain & Land Valuation Litigation Conference in New Orleans. We are getting close to capacity, but there is still room. In recent years, we have standing room only in the Conference halls, and

What is a case about the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit’s en banc opinion on the FDA’s approval procedures for e-cigarettes, Wages and White Lion Invs, L.L.C. v. Food & Drug Admin., No. 21-60766 (Jan. 3, 2023), doing here?

We consider it worthy of your time and post it here

Here are the cases that Michael Berger and I discussed in today’s presentation to the ABA State and Local Government Law Section’s Land Use group. It was good seeing everyone, even virtually:

You remember that longstanding trope: that matters of land use are “local” issues, and thus in civil rights claims involving a state or local government interfering with the right of property federal courts should avoid adjudication until the government has had every chance to do the right thing (even where it is patently obvious that

ALI-CLE brochure cover page

Here’s the brochure and the full agenda and registration information for the upcoming ALI-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation Conference at the JW Marriott in New Orleans, February 1-3, 2024.

This is the long-running nationally-focused conference on all things eminent domain, takings, valuation, and related. We have three tracks, from which you can

Here’s a takings cert petition, filed yesterday.

Because this is one of ours, we’re not going to comment much beyond reposting the Question Presented, and to let you know this one is about how the “relatively modest” requirement that the government have taken some “definitive position” about what uses are allowed and what uses

The Sixth Circuit these days. Lots of property and takings-related stuff being decided in that court. See here, here, here, here, here, and here for some examples.

The latest is O’Connor v. Eubanks, No. 22-1780 (Oct. 6, 2023), in which an unsigned panel opinion (with concurrence of Judge Thapar

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I’ll take ‘Words I Like to See’ for $800, Alex.

In this Order, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear two important property rights cases (are there any other kind?). Both are cases we’ve been following — and indeed are now playing a part in.

The first is Devillier v. Texas (the

Before you get too excited by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit’s opinion in Catholic Healthcare Int’l, Inc. v. Genoa Twp., No. 22-2139 (Sep. 11, 2023), a spoiler up front: this may be a good ripeness decision, but this isn’t a takings case.

But you takings mavens may still want