Join our Pacific Legal Foundation colleagues Jon Houghton, Daniel Woislaw, Kady Valois, and Sam Spiegelman (moderating) tomorrow, Wednesday, February 8, 2023, at 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. ET for a free webinar, “Emerging Issues in Property Rights.”
Here’s the agenda:
Protecting private property rights has been at the heart of PLF’s
We really want you there…
One (nearly) last reminder that there’s still time to register for your space at the 40th ALI-CLE Eminent Domain & Land Valuation Litigation Conference, February 1-4, 2023, in Austin. In the past several years, we have sold out due to the conference room capacity and the conference hotel block.
Here’s the latest from a case we’ve featured here before.
There’s something for everyone in the Florida District Court of Appeal (Second District)’s opinion in Jamieson v. Town of Fort Myers Beach, No. 2D21-2722 (Dec. 29, 2022).
Let’s start with the outcome: the court reversed the trial court’s summary judgment in a wetlands
A quick one (2 page, per curiam) from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to send you into the holiday.
In Devillier v. Texas, No. 21-40750 (Nov. 12, 2022), the court summarily concluded that “the Fifth Amendment Takings Clause as applied to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment does not provide
Here it is, the official agenda and program for the 40th ALI-CLE Eminent Domain & Land Valuation Litigation Conference, February 2-4, 2023 (with a special event the evening of Wednesday, February 1, 2023 to entice you to arrive early).
Here’s the brochure with the complete agenda, schedule, and faculty listing. But to tempt you,
Well, that was quick. As we noted here, we recently argued a case in the Ninth Circuit (October 20, 2022) about whether a regulatory takings claim is ripe.
Not long after we posted the argument recording, the Ninth Circuit panel issued a short memorandum opinion rejecting our arguments wholesale (November 1, 2022).
So earlier
October 20, 2022 was what one advocate noted was “land use day at the Ninth Circuit,” because three out of the four cases being argued in Courtroom 3 of the San Francisco courthouse were indeed land use — or perhaps more accurately, regulatory takings — cases.
Ours was one of those cases, Ralston v. San
That’s right: Clint Schumacher’s Eminent Domain Podcast has reached its 100th episode. Very impressive, Clint!
And for this “very special episode,” Clint was kind enough to ask us to return to celebrate. In a wide-ranging hour-plus chat, Clint and I talked property rights and takings of course, but also hit on several
One last reminder that there’ still time to register for the upcoming Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference at the William and Mary Law School in Williamsburg, Virginia, September 29-30, 2022. If you can’t make it to the historic campus, there’s an option to attend remotely.
In our opinion, the Conference is the best of its kind
Check out the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit’s opinion in Village Green of Sayville, LLC v. Town of Islip, No. 19-3353 (Aug. 5, 2022), a case in which the court held the Town reached a final decision denying Village Green’s request to develop a 64-unit apartment complex on Long Island.
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