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Here’s the video of our October panel at the 2019 Brigham-Kanner Property Rights conference during which we spoke about “The New New Property: Public Resources and Private Rights.”

Our panel also discussed judicial takings, Stop the Beach, (a case in which speaker Ken Bell — then a Justice on the Florida Supreme

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If you get this, you need to attend the 37th Annual ALI-CLE Eminent Domain & Land Valuation Litigation Conference, January 23-25, 2020, in Nashville.

And if you don’t get this, you need to attend more. 

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Yesterday, our friends and colleagues at the Institute for Justice (Diana Simpson and Bob McNamara) welcomed us to their studios to record an episode of the Short Circuit” podcast.

We talked property, takings, Virginia oysters, the cert petition about Colorado eminent domain abuse, and how the Supreme Court of the

Following up on the petition, filed last Friday, asking the Virginia Supreme Court to review a trial court’s demurrer which failed to recognize that the owners of a state lease to harvest oysters in the Nansemond River have a property interest . The court concluded that the city and santitation district possess a superior

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Just filed: this Petition for Appeal in a case which our William and Mary Law class has a special interest in.

The above photo was taken a couple of weeks ago, when we paid a visit to the property owner/plaintiffs, the owners of a long-standing oyster business operating out of the City of Suffolk, Virginia.

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Protip for the public line for SCOTUS arguments: you have to get there really early. As in really early. Before 5 am early. Because that’s the time that we, along with some of our William and Mary Law students (pictured above, after the arguments), arrived at 1 First Street NE to take up our place

Update 10/25/2019: an astute and seasoned correspondent writes that the issue of whether a property owner must raise constitutional issues in the administrative proceedings was settled in a published opinion that involved the same agency, the California Coastal Commission. See Healing v. Cal. Coastal Comm’n (1994) 22 Cal. App. 4th 1158 (we put in in

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Here is a transcript of the remarks I delivered today at the 2019 Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference. I was honored to join lawprof Henry Smith and Florida Supreme Court Justice (ret.) Ken Bell (who authored the Florida court’s opinion in Stop the Beach Renourishment which was challenged in SCOTUS as a “judicial taking”) to speak