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January 15, 2016
8:00 a.m.
An inversecondemnation.com holiday tradition, the Yule Log, updated for current events.
Following up on yesterday’s post, here’s another one about precondemnation offers.
In City of Rosenberg v. State of Texas, No. 14-15-00745-CV (Tex. App. Oct. 13, 2015),
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*photo courtesy of Joe Sherman (thanks, Joe).
Followers of the blog understand that in addition to our usual fare of eminent domain, land use, regulatory takings and the like, we also cover another area, election law and voting rights. That’s a weird feature of our practice, so we post about it. Call it “editor’s prerogative” or something.
But there are actually some
I’ve put off posting this for a while, but it now feels like the right time.
Back in May, Chuck Hurd — an old mentor and colleague — passed away. When I was fresh out of law school, Chuck (known as “CHH” to us in the firm) was one of the first experienced lawyers to take
Every year at around this time, we note the anniversary of the blog. Our first post was back in August 2006, which means that we have nine years of this under our belt. In blog years, that’s apparently a lot.
It’s a gas to think about our favorite topics, and write up my thoughts
We reported on the California Supreme Court’s unanimous opinion in California Building Industry Ass’n v. City of San Jose, No. S212072 (Cal. June 15, 2015) on the day it was issued, and we also spoke about the case at a recent session sponsored by the International Municipal Lawyers Association.
But we’ve never done
From time-to-time, we cover non-land use, non-takings stuff that interests us, like election law. The biggest case the Supreme Court has considered in perhaps decades in that area is now being briefed, and the appellants have filed their brief on the merits.
Brief for Appellants, Evenwel v. Abbott, No. 14-940 (July 31, 2015)