Mark your calendars for July 12, 2013 for our CLE teleconference on “Supreme Court Takings: A First Look at Koontz and Horne,” sponsored by the ABA’s State and Local Government Law Section. We’ll start at 1:00 pm ET (Noon CT, 11:00 am MT, 10:00 am PT, 7:00 am HT). Here’s the program
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Eminent Domain And Condemnation Law Conference (Honolulu, Aug. 21, 2013)
Mark your calendars: on August 21, 2013, The Seminar Group is putting on the 2d Annual Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law Conference, in Honolulu (Hilton Waikiki Beach). Our Damon Key partner Mark M. Murakami is the Planning Chair, and the rest of the faculty is pretty good, too.
We’ll be speaking at two of the…
Audio Of HSBA Appellate Section CLE On Amicus Briefing

Earlier this week, I spoke to the Hawaii State Bar Association’s Appellate Law Section about amicus briefing, along with Daniel Gluck, Senior Staff Attorney at ACLU Hawaii.
I appeared by videoconference, and we were able to record my remarks. The handout and links I mention are posted here.
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Materials And Links From Today’s HSBA Appellate Section CLE On Amicus Briefing
Here is the handout (2 pages) from today’s CLE program on Amicus Briefing, sponsored by the Hawaii State Bar Association’s Appellate Law Section.
Links to the briefs mentioned are also posted here.
Update: here’s the audio of my remarks.
Amicus Briefing – Hawaii State Bar Association, Appellate Law Section – CLE 5-20-2013
HSBA Appellate Section: Amicus Briefing
On Monday, May 20, 2013, I’ll be speaking at the Hawaii State Bar Association’s Appellate Law Section’s monthly meeting, on “Amicus Briefing.”
Sorry for the short notice, but I am a last-minute substitution since one of the original panelists, retired Hawaii Supreme Court Justice Steven Levinson, is under the weather and cannot attend. The other…
Materials From Today’s Virginia Eminent Domain Conference
For those of you attending the Virginia Eminent Domain Conference, here’s the expanded papers on “Tough Takings Questions: Regulatory Takings, Zoning Issues and Judicial Takings” and Public Use issues.
Use the password provided at the conference to open the pdf’s. It’s the same p/w for both. If you forgot the password, email me.
For those who did not attend, sorry folks, there are some benefits to coming to a conference! Y’all are going to have to wait for a bit — after a decent interval to allow the attendees to get their money’s worth, we’ll remove the password.
For more about the cases and books we discussed yesterday during my presentation on “Virginia’s Place in National Eminent Domain Trends, check these out:
- Hawaii Housing Authority v. Midkiff, 467 U.S. 229 (1984) (private takings, Public Use Clause).
- Lingle v. Chevron, U.S.A., Inc., 544 U.S. 528 (2005) (gas station rent control, and the demise of the “substantially advance” test as a takings test).
- Kaiser Aetna v. United States, 444 U.S. 164 (1979) (navigable waters, regulatory takings).
- Livingston v. Virginia Dep’t of Transportation, 726 S.E.2d 264 (Va. 2012) (flooding and taking liability).
- James Ely, The Guardian of Every Other Right: A Constitutional History of Property Rights (1998) (read this book!).
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7th Annual Virginia Eminent Domain Conference (April 25-26, 2013)
Those of you on the east coast (or, who wouldn’t mind a visit to a very beautiful part of Virginia), mark your calendars: on April 25 and 26, 2013, CLE International is presenting the 7th Annual Virginia Eminent Domain Conference – Local, State, and National Trends at the Tides Inn in Irvington, Virginia.
My…
Podcast And Video: The PLDC And Property Rights In Hawaii – A Panel Discussion
(We’re not sure who captured and posted the above video — wasn’t us — but to whomever did so, thank you.)
Earlier this week, our colleague Mark M. Murakami spoke at the University of Hawaii Law School on a panel about “The PLDC and Property Rights in Hawaii.” PLDC refers to the Public…
Links And Materials From Today’s ABA Takings Teleconference
Here are the links to the materials and briefs from the Supreme Court’s three taking cases which we are discussing at today’s teleconference sponsored by the ABA’s Section on Litigation’s Environmental Litigation Commitee and the Condemnation, Zoning, and Land Use Committee.
Post-telecon note: thanks to everyone for joining us. I will be posting up the…
Still Time To Join Us Tomorrow For ABA Takings Roundable (Free!)
Did we say free? (If you are an ABA member, that is.)
Join us for a teleconference jointly sponsored by the ABA’s Section on Litigation’s Environmental Litigation Commitee and the Condemnation, Zoning, and Land Use Committee to discuss the latest and greatest in takings law, specifically the three cases the U.S. Supreme Court is ruling…
