Property Rights – Eminent Domain
(and where to find them on the interwebs)
Count me surprised and touched: when I wore the prototype of our new inversecondemnation.com fleecy swag vest at the recently-completed — and very icy — ALI-CLE Eminent Domain & Land Valuation Litigation Conference in Austin (see below), quite a few of the
Genuine Pennsylvania coal…
… anthracite, not bituminous
What to get the dirt lawyer in your life for the holidays? Charlie Brown got a bag of rocks for Halloween, so there’s that. Or there are the old reliable origami boulders (see below). But you are better than that and want to be a good gifter.
On the day we celebrate Constitution Day (or should we say Khaaaaan-stitution Day?) we have to admit that pretty much nothing beats One Named Kirk’s reading of the Preamble.
KIRK: This was not written for chiefs.Hear me! Hear this! Among my people, we carry many such words as this from many lands
Every year at this time, it seems, we’re realizing again that as you get older, you forget birthdays. It occurred to us only over this past weekend that that this blog’s “birthday” was looming and we almost let it slip by without notice. It hardly seems like sixteen years ago that we posted here for
You remember our earlier posts about the issue (known as “home equity theft”). In a series of decisions mostly by state supreme courts, those courts have asked whether it is legal for a state or local government to “keep the change” after seizing and selling a tax debtor’s property. For examples, see these cases:
It’s not quite “Yes Virginia…” but here is our annual Independence Day missive on the legal angle on the Declaration. This may have special significance as the nation is in the process of reexamining many of our assumptions and history. But though the Founders may have been flawed individuals, there’s really no question
Even if the world were open today, the doors to most Hawaii state, county, and city offices would still be locked. Because today is the day that Hawaii celebrates Good Friday.
Yes, Good Friday is an an official state-sanctioned holiday in the 808 area code, so we’re reposting our annual recounting of how it
From the “too modest” department: when you find out that a fellow you knew only as an appraiser/MAI (who once mentioned offhand that he was “in the Army for a bit before I became an appraiser”) was so much more than what you knew him as.
Yes, he was the one who taught you about
But seriously, have a very happy and restful holiday.
– Your friends at inversecondemnation.com
What to get the dirt lawyer in your life for the holidays? Charlie Brown got a bag of rocks for Halloween, so there’s that. Or there are the old reliable, origami boulders. But you are better than that and want to be a good gifter.
So here are our 2021 suggestions for stocking