Mark your calendars for October 20 – 23, 2011. That’s when the State Bar of California will present its 20th Anniversary Environmental Law Conference at Yosemite® (yes, it is trademarked), at the Tenaya Lodge in Fish Camp, California.
Along with U.C. Berkeley law professor Joseph Sax and Deputy California Attorney General Daniel L. Siegel
One of the very first things we addressed in the first year Property class (wonderfully taught by Allen Smith, visiting from Michigan Law) was the ownership of animals: when do wild animals become someone’s “property?” And the very first Latin phrase we incorporated into our new legal lexicon was ferae naturae, the law
In case you were not paying attention on this fine Thursday, here comes the Federal Circuit’s opinion in Mildenberger v. United States, No. 2010-5084 (June 30, 2011). It’s an interesting opinion because it deals with the mildly metaphysical question of when the six year statute of limitations for inverse condemnation claims against the federal
We predicted the Supreme Court wasn’t finished with judicial takings or judicial takings-like issues after its decision (or, more accurately, non-decision) in Stop the Beach Renourishment v. Fla. Dep’t of Envt’l Protection, 130 S. Ct. 2592 (2010). It looks like we might have more grist for the mill, because today, the Court agreed to
Honolulu attorney Jay Fidell (who also produces Think Tech Hawaii) writes a regular column in the Honolulu Star-Advertiser. This week, he focuses on eminent domain in “Governor must insure wind farm moves forward,” where he writes about the proposed wind farm on Molokai, and urges the state to use eminent domain
The ABA State & Local Government Law Section has just published a new book, Whose Drop Is It Anyway? Legal Issues Surrounding Our Nation’s Water Resources, edited by Megan Baroni. I just received my copy.
Skimming through the chapters, it looks worthy of a place on the bookshelf as a practical guide to a
As we predicted in a recent article, the Supreme Court’s latest takings decision in Stop the Beach Renourishment, Inc. v. Florida Dep’t of Environmental Protection, No. 08-11 (June 17, 2010) has been “a boon for academics who may continue the search for the ‘takings quark’ (if not woodchucks) in the pages of law
Beginning at 9:00 a.m. Central Time today, the Texas Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Severance v. Patterson, No. 09-0378 (Nov. 5, 2010), the case in which the court held 6-2 that Texas does not recognize a “rolling” public beachfront access easement, without proof of prescription. In March, the court agreed to rehear the
On Tuesday, April 19, 2011 starting at 9:00 a.m. Central Time, the Texas Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Severance v. Patterson, No. 09-0378 (Nov. 5, 2010), the case in which the court held 6-2 that Texas does not recognize a “rolling” public beachfront access easement, without proof of prescription. Thus, the public
On a day that our attention is elsewhere, comes this important notice: the Texas Supreme Court has granted the State’s motion for rehearing in Severance v. Patterson, No. 09-0378 (Nov. 5, 2010), the case in which the court held 6-2 that Texas does not recognize a “rolling” public beachfront access easement, without proof