Hardly seems like a decade ago that the Supreme Court gave us eminent domain lawyers something to talk about at cocktail parties: the Court’s infamous and widely-hated decision in Kelo v. City of New London.
Find out about what the intervening ten years has brought us from the Cato Institute, which is sponsoring a
For those of you who are members of the ABA Section of State and Local Government Law’s Land Use Committee (if you aren’t, you can become a member easily; just ask me how), please tune in on June 12, 2015 for our monthly teleconference.
Here’s the announcement:
Our third meeting is scheduled for Friday, June
If you have plans to be in Wisconsin or environs in June, the Wisconsin chapter of the Appraisal Institute is putting on its 12th annual Condemnation Appraisal Symposium at the Marquette Law School on Wednesday, June 3, 2015.
One of the featured speakers is Mike Berger on “Current National Eminent Domain Issues,” and there will
A couple of noteworthy conferences upcoming, one in-person, the other a “webinar” format:
Yesterday, on behalf of my Owners’ Counsel of America colleagues, I was pleased and honored to present to University of Hawaii School of Law Professor David L. Callies the Crystal Eagle, recognizing his lifetime of property law and property rights scholarship.
Professor Callies’ present and former students (there are many), his faculty colleagues, the Hawaii
Weird headline from KITV. No, owners whose property is taken for the rail aren’t “profiting” if they are able to get more for their land than what the condemning agency offered; “just compensation and damages” are required by the constitution, and if they are able to obtain more, in many cases that still leaves them
As reported yesterday by Pacific Business News (“HART acquired 34 properties for $70M along Honolulu rail transit route, new report says“), “[t]he Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation has acquired 34 properties totaling about $70.2 million thus far along the 20-mile rail transit route, including the recent purchase of a former sports bar property
Although we just wrapped this year’s ALI-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation and Condemnation 101 conferences, we’ve already started to think about the 2016 programs.
Those of you who attended this year or have attended in the past, please watch your email inboxes in the next few days for an informal survey from
If you are a “public agency staff, an appraiser, or a right-of-way consultant” (or, we presume, a lawyer) in California, check this out: a free half-day seminar on eminent domain issues in Costa Mesa on Thursday, March 5, 2015, presented by the Nossaman law firm, the guys who produce the California Eminent Domain
Here are the links from our opening sessions this morning: