All the topics you want to know about, presented by top-notch faculty from across the nation. Sessions include:
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit’s recent opinion in A Flock of Seagirls LLC v. Walton County, No. 20-12584 (Aug. 5, 2021) isn’t about judicial takings, or even about eminent domain (even though a straight condemnation turned up in the factual background).
But this blog’s frequently flyers might want to
All the topics you want to know about, presented by top-notch faculty from across the nation. Sessions include:
In Protect and Preserve Kahoma Ahupuaa Ass’n v. Maui Planning Comm’n, No. SCWC-15-0000478 (June 16, 2021), the Hawaii Supreme Court reaffirmed the idea that all members of the public have a right under the Hawaii Constitution to a “clean and healthful environment,” and that this is a “property” right entitled to due process protection
Back in February, we were honored to be part of the University of Hawaii Law Review’s symposium “25 Years of PASH,” a retrospective of one of the Hawaii Supreme Court’s most famous (or infamous) decisions, Pub. Access Shoreline Haw. v. Haw. Cnty. Plan. Comm’n, 79 Haw. 425, 903 P.2d 1246 (1993), cert. denied
We suggest you take a read through the California Court of Appeal’s opinion in Felkay v. City of Santa Barbara, No. B304964 (Mar. 18, 2021). It’s all there: Lucas wipeout takings, futility and exhaustion, coastal zone property rights.
This is an inverse condemnation case, seeing compensation for the city denying the owner any economically
Mention the term “PASH” to any dirt lawyer in the 50th State, and they’ll nod in understanding. It’s an 808 shibboleth — a kind of local property password — that signals that you’ve been around the block and know your stuff.
On one hand, it is simply an acronym for Public Access Shoreline Hawaii, the
If you “get” this, you should be registered for the 38th Annual Eminent Domain & Land Valuation Litigation Conference, to be held remotely on Thursday and Friday, January 28-29, 2021.
The list is growing rapidly, and you need to join us!
This is the “big one” where the nation’s best practitioners, scholars, jurists,
We listened live last week, but the court has now made the recording available in Johnson v. City of Suffolk.
This is what we call the “oyster takings” case in which Nansemond River oystermen claim that their property was taken when the City of Suffolk and the Sanitation District dumped sewage into the
In Altman v. Brevard County, No. 5D19-1839 (July 10, 2020), the Florida District Court of Appeal considered a host of owner objections to a taking of easements over five beachfront lots:
(1) the County was required to obtain separate resolutions for each taking; (2) the County’s petition in eminent domain did not strictly comply