ALI-CLE, the good folks who put on the annual programs on Eminent Domain and Land Valuation, and Condemnation 101: How to Prepare and Present an Eminent Domain Case, have announced the dates and venue for the 2015 conferences:
Thursday – Saturday, February 5-7, 2015
Hotel Nikko, in San Francisco.
Those
Earlier this year, we co-chaired the Hawaii Agriculture Conference, and one of the hottest items on the agenda was the “GMO” issue, now brewing in at least two Hawaii courts (the Kauai ordinance was challenged in federal court, while the Big Island ordinance was challenged in the Third Circuit).
We’re
We’re straying outside the usual subjects of this blog (but not that far, since we also do a lot of work related to municipal governments and constitutional law).
Our “home” in the American Bar Association is the Section of State & Local Government Law (we’re Chair of the Section’s Eminent Domain Law group), has put
Mark your calendars for next week Thursday, May 22, 2014. ALI-CLE, the good folks who put on our annual Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation and Eminent Domain 101 conferences, are sponsoring the above-titled teleconference/webinar. Here’s the program description:
The City of Richmond, California rattled the universe of real estate lenders, trustees, owners, bankers
Back in October, we had the honor of moderating a discussion about the ripeness issue in takings law at the 40th Anniversary Symposium on The Takings Issue at Touro Law School (see here and here for more). Professor Vicki Been and Pacific Legal Foundation’s J. David Breemer were the panelists, each weighing in on how
Each year, the William and Mary Law School’s Property Rights Project awards the Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Prize to a deserving person “whose work affirms that property rights are fundamental to protecting and preserving individual liberty.” This list of past recipients is an All-Star roster of property scholars and jurists, including lawprofs Frank Michelman, Richard
Our Damon Key colleague Bethany C.K. Ace, is the Chair of the Hawaii State Bar Association’s Section of Appellate Law, and sends along this reminder of the Section’s monthly meeting and program:
Oral Arguments – Tips and Insights
Monday, March 3, 2014
12 noon – 1:00 p.m.
HSBA Conference Room
1100 Alakea Street
Here are the links from today’s session on “They’ll Take My Big Gulp From My Cold Dead Hands – Public Health, the Police Power, and the Nanny State” at the ABA Midyear meeting in Chicago.
Joining me was Sarah Conly, Professor of Philosophy at Bowdoin College, author of “Against Autonomy: Justifying Coercive
It has been published for a couple of months, but we finally got our hands on an author’s copy of the Hawaii State Bar Association’s Federal Appellate Practice Manual. We authored the chapters on “Briefing – Merits and Amicus” and “Supreme Court Review.”
Our fellow Damon Key lawyers Bethany Ace
Next Thursday, February 6, 2014, we’ll be in Chicago to moderate an American Bar Association discussion/debate on a topic that’s not our usual takings-eminent domain-land use stuff, but is still one of the hotter topics around. “They’ll Take My Big Gulp From My Cold Dead Hands” is an hour-and-a-half with three experts in
