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Calling the case “tempestuous,” the New Jersey Law Journal (via law.com) summarizes this week’s New Jersey Supreme Court oral arguments in Klumpp v. Borough of Avalon,No. A-49-09 (certification granted Nov. 10, 2009). See Michael Booth, Town’s Taking of Beachfront Property Without Compensation Tested at Court (Mar. 24, 2010).

In Klummp v. Borough of Avalon

The latest skirmish in California’s mobile home rent control wars, this time from the California Court of Appeal, Fourth District, in two cases out of San Diego county, MHC Financing Ltd. P’ship v. City of Santee, No. D053345 (Mar. 15, 2010).

The cases present a convoluted series of facts and procedural twists which we

This just in: the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit will be hearing Guggenheim v. City of Goleta, No. 06-56306 (Sep. 28, 2009) en banc.

The panel opinion in Guggenheim held that the city’s mobile home rent control ordinance was a regulatory taking, an issue the court had never considered before:

Eagle_reg_takings_cover I just received my copy of the latest edition of Professor Steven J. Eagle‘s definitive treatise Regulatory Takings (Lexis/Nexis, 4th ed. Dec. 2009).

Like the earlier editions, this is a must-have for every land use and property law attorney’s back bookshelf.

Chapters include “Property Rights and Their Sources,” “The Ascendancyof Land Use Regulation,” “Analytical

Here’s the Reply Brief filed last month by the property owner in Leone v. County of Maui, No.29696,an appeal in the HawaiiIntermediate Court of Appeals which is considering, among other issues,the question of when a regulatory takings claim is ripe for reviewunder Williamson County Regional Planning Comm’n v. Hamilton Bank of Johnson City

The County of Maui has filed its Answering Brief in Leone v. County of Maui, No. 29696, an appeal in the HawaiiIntermediate Court of Appeals which is considering, among other issues,the question of when a regulatory takings claim is ripe for reviewunder Williamson County Regional Planning Comm’n v. Hamilton Bank of Johnson City

With apologies to Jeff Foxworthy, you might be a regulatory takings maven if…you instantly understood this post’s headline, and eagerly clicked through to read the story.

But you don’t have to be a takings nerd to appreciate the import of today’s Ninth Circuit decision in Los Altos El Granada Investors, v. City of Capitola

WavesOn Tuesday, November 10, 2009, at 9:00 a.m., the Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments in Maunalua Bay Beach Ohana 28 v. State of Hawaii, No. 28175. The arguments will take place in the Supreme Court courtroom at Aliiolani Hale.

The ICA panel will consist of Judges Nakamura, Watanabe and Foley.

In a lengthy opinion — it comes in two volumes — the Ninth Circuit again takes on a mobile home rent control ordinance, this time with a better result than usual for the property owners. The court determined the ordinance worked a taking, and remanded the case for a calculation of just compensation. Guggenheim v.

Today, we filed an amicus brief in Leone v. County of Maui, No. 29696, an appeal in the Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals which is considering, among other issues, the question of when a regulatory takings claim is ripe for review under Williamson County Regional Planning Comm’n v. Hamilton Bank of Johnson City