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.
Final
In Skatemore, Inc. v. Whitmer, No. 21-2985 (July 19, 2022), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit held that neither the Just Compensation Clause, nor the Fourteenth Amendment abrogated the states’ immunity from being sued in federal court for compensation for takings.
This is another one of those cases where — due
Here’s the latest in an issue we’ve been following for a while. You recall that several years ago, a divided panel of the Ninth Circuit held there’s nothing particularly special about an unresolved takings claim for just compensation that sets it apart from other creditor claims in a government bankruptcy.
The Ninth Circuit majority held
By now, you know that the 19th Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference is set for September 29-30, 2022, at the William and Mary Law School in Williamsburg, Virginia (register here – space is limited – fee ranges from free to $195 – a bargain!). And you know that our colleague Jim Burling is this
No smoking in Hatu
A short one from the U.S. District Court in Utah, but worth reading because it highlights one of those unresolved issues: the remedy for a “takings” claim.
Now, you’ve heard the Supreme Court describe just compensation as the “default” remedy for regulatory takings and inverse claims. But it isn’t the only
Here’s the latest – a cert petition in a case (and an issue) we’ve been following that asks can a government action that is a violation of copyright also be a taking?
Bynum wrote, researched, and edited a book, a biography of Texas A & M’s famed “12th Man” of the football squad.
We’ve been meaning to post the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit’s opinion in Barber v. Charter Twp of Springfield, No. 20-2298 (Apr. 11, 2022) for a while because it emphasizes an important point about “final decision” ripeness, and the sometimes ridiculous arguments made to support an argument that a takings claim
Check this out: Pepperdine lawprof Shelley Saxer has a piece in Jotwell, “The Impact of Knick on Regulatory Takings and Those Pesky Lucas Exceptions,” a review of U. Hawaii lawprof David Callies’ book, “Regulatory Takings After Knick.”
The review is short and to the point, so we suggest you read