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.
He might be from Iowa, but that guy who plays him is from north of the border, so our kudos to a Canadian for
Every year at this time, it seems, we’re realizing again that as you get older, you forget birthdays. Thus, it only occurred to us only over this past weekend that that this blog’s “birthday” passed without notice.
It hardly seems like thirteen years ago that we posted here for the first time. In law
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Do you have “giver’s block” about an appropriate present this holiday season for that special dirt lawyer in your orbit? Well fear not, here are our modest suggestions for stocking stuffers.
Start with this one, Howard Mansfield’s recently-published book “The Habit of Turning the World Upside Down.” As we discovered after reading the
And belong to the owners of the mineral estate, at least according to two of three judges on a Ninth Circuit panel, applying Montana property law.
Update: our New York colleague Mike Rikon has posted a much better summary of the case and the court’s rationale here.
Been meaning to post this one for a while, because it’s on a topic that is frequently on the mind of eminent domain lawyers, but isn’t often covered by the courts: liability for inequitable precondemnation activities.
In City of Albuquerque v. SMP Properties, LLC , No. A-1-CA-35261 (Sep. 26, 2018), the New Mexico Court of
“Condemnation clauses” — provisions in leases that say if the leased premises is taken, then the lease automatically terminates — are pretty common. They also “codify” the common law, which provided the same thing. These provisions also commonly allocate if and how the lessor and the lessee would divide up any compensation award (often the
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.
He might be from Iowa, but that guy who plays him is from north of the border, so our kudos to a Canadian for
In Pacific Gas and Electric Co. v. Superior Court, No. C085308 (July 2, 2018), there’s no discussion of the inverse condemnation claims brought by property owners against Pacific Gas and Electric for the devastating 2015 Butte wildfire. But since we’re following the progress of all wildfire cases, we thought you might be interested
text Download Wisconsin Three v Eau Claire, No. 2015AP1858 (June 6, 2018)
Wisconsin Three, LLC v. City of Eau Claire, No. 2015AP1858 (Mich. June 6, 2018)