The city told an owner whose three parcels were outside of the city’s jurisdiction that if it wanted the city’s permission to replat into 74 parcels, it would need city water and sewer service to each of the proposed lots.
So the owner asked to connect to the city’s water and sewer system (deliberately overbuilt
Here’s the latest in an issue we’ve been following.
Let’s say the government thinks you have committed a crime (or someone else has). To investigate, it seizes property as evidence or potential evidence. But after things wrap up and it no longer needs the property as evidence, the government doesn’t return it to its owner.
Here’s the cert petition, filed last week, in a case we’ve posted about. See here (Ninth Circuit arguments) and here (en banc petition).
The Ninth Circuit affirmed dismissal of a takings claim because (it held) the claim isn’t ripe. The government hasn’t made up its mind, and just might allow the owners to
Here’s the latest from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit on takings ripeness, Haney v. Town of Mashpee, No. 22-1446 (June 6, 2023).
The case centers on Gooseberry Island, Massachusetts, which is zoned by the Town of Mashpee as R-3. But under the Town’s zoning code, any residence must have at
Here’s the latest in a case we’ve been following since before it became one of ours.
In Gearing v. City of Half Moon Bay, No. 21-16688 (Dec. 8, 2022), the Ninth Circuit upheld the district court’s dismissal of a regulatory takings case, holding that federal courts should abstain from considering regulatory takings cases in
Here’s a new cert petition, filed this week by Michael Berger that asks whether Knick‘s no-need-to-exhaust-or-chase-state-compensation rule applies retroactively.
The Second Circuit held that no, the owner’s claims were too late, and although Knick overruled the Williamson County rule that kept him from a timely filing in federal court, that’s just too
In what the court termed a “matter of first impression,” slip op. at 5, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit held in Beaver Street Investments, LLC v. Summit County, No. 22-3600 (Apr. 21, 2023), that the statute of limitations in a § 1983 takings claim for a local government’s alleged home
There’s a lot going on in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit’s opinion in Tejas Motel, L.L.C. v. City of Mesquite, No. 22-10321 (Mar. 22, 2023), but that’s mostly because it’s a procedural decision resolving a question of whether a Texas court’s federal takings judgment was res judicata, and therefore
Check out the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit’s opinion in Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America v. Williams, No. 21-1731 (Apr. 3, 2023), where the court reinstated a complaint dismissed by the district court for lack of standing.
The Eighth Circuit held that even though the “usual” remedy for a regulatory
As most of you probably already know, there’s a demon lurking out there in takings claims. Not of the Levon Helm-narrated The Right Stuff variety, but maybe just as deadly in litigation.
That’s right, the too-early-or-too-late thing (or in some cases, the too-early-and-too-late argument). Getting caught between arguments that a takings claim