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Space is filling up, but there’s still time to join us later this month in Detroit for the 32nd Annual Land Use Institute (April-19-20). 

We’ll let program Planning Chair Frank Schnidman explain all the reasons why, and we’ll add only these points: (1) it’s a very good program that won’t take much of your time

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Here’s an article (“Murr v. Wisconsin: The Supreme Court Rewrites Property Rules in Multiple-Parcel Regulatory Takings Cases“), which we authored along with a colleague, published in February 2018’s Zoning and Planning Law Report, about the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Murr v. Wisconsin, the case about the “larger parcel” in

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Mark your calendars, plan to come: Detroit, April 19-20, 2018. For what is perhaps the best deal in CLE (tuition as low as $400), the 32d Annual Land Use Institute, sponsored by our section of the ABA, the Section of State and Local Government Law.

The venue is the

Update: thanks to Daniel Lehmann for keying us in to this case, now being reviewed by the Supreme Court, involving the foundational question of whether title to Equal Footing Doctrine submerged lands is a question of state or federal law. Scheduled for the Court’s 2/16/2018 conference.

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In our experience, rationality

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At first, you might not pay much attention to it. After all, it doesn’t really stick out — elevated rail lines aren’t that unusual in a big city. Street-level trains and pedestrians don’t mix well, and in the early 20th Century, New York State adopted a law which moved some of the lines above

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If case you were thinking you might have missed a big property case that made its way to the Supreme Court, fear not. All of the above issues were raised in the course of yesterday’s arguments in a patent case.

As the transcript in Oil States Energy Services, LLC v. Greene’s Energy Group, LLC

The complete agenda and faculty list has now been posted on the ALI-CLE website, and early registration is open! Go now and reserve your spot. 

We paid a visit to Charleston recently, the venue for our January 2018 conference, to scout it out. We can report that we’re going to have a great time

Chair Reception SLG 8-11-2017 invitation

If you are scheduled to be in or near New York City on Friday, August 11, 2017, please consider attending one or both of the following events:

Here are links to the cases and materials we spoke about today during our portions of the APA’s 2017 Planning Law Review webinar: