You might think from the caption of the Hawaii Supreme Court’s opinion in In re Contested Case Hearing on the Water Use Permit Application Originally Filed by Kukui (Molokai), Inc., No. SCOT-17-0000184 (Dec. 10, 2018), that, oh boy, we were about to get yet another pronunciation on Hawaii’s water law from the court.
2018 Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference Report: Emerging Issues
Last week, the 15th Annual Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference saw the gathering of legal scholars, judges, lawyers, and law students at the William and Mary Law School to award the B-K Property Rights Prize to Cardozo lawprof Stewart Sterk, followed by a day-long conference focusing on Professor Sterk’s work and the latest developments in property
ALI-CLE 2019 Eminent Domain And Land Valuation Litigation Conference, Palm Springs Agenda – Register Now!
You’ve known for a while that Palm Springs, California, specifically the Renaissance Palm Springs Hotel (a resort facility, but right in town, so you will have many options for “off campus” activities like art museums, the aerial tram, golf, and whatever suits your fancy, and close-in to the Palm Springs Airport), is the venue
Links And Materials From Today’s Transportation Research Board Session
Here are the cases and other items I either spoke about or mentioned at today’s Transportation Research Board‘s 57th Annual Workshop on Transportation Law in Cambridge, Massachusetts:
- The Colorado public use cases: public use vs. public purpose: Lafayette and Carousel Farms
- On the Supreme Court docket: Violet Dock Port (SCOTUS, Louisiana)
- The Louisiana Supreme
Arizona Takings: Condemnation Summit XXII
Thanks to colleague Chris Kramer, we’ll be speaking later this week (Friday, May 4, 2018) in Phoenix at the 22nd Condemnation Summit at the Arizona Biltmore.
Our session will cover “Condemnation Trends: Nationwide & Arizona.” The rest of the day’s agenda looks mighty good too, with session on valuation of easements, paying for
Land Use Institute – Cases And Links From Today’s Session On Federal Laws And Local Land Use Decision Making: Water
Here are the cases and materials I either discussed, or planned to discuss (but ran out of time), in this morning’s session at the 32nd Annual Land Use Institute:
- Kaiser Aetna v. United States, 444 U.S. 164 (1979) (establishing that “navigability” for purposes of regulation is different in kind from navigability for purposes
Land Use Institute – Detroit
We’re in Detroit the rest of the week at the Mercy Law School for the venerable Land Use Institute, now in its 32nd iteration.
Planning Chair Frank Schnidman has assembled a great faculty including out Detroit colleague Alan Ackerman (above, talking about takings liability for flooding), and we’ll be spending the time talking inverse
Department Of Precrime: HAWSCT Considers Cultural “Property” In Public Land
Remember the Tom Cruise/Steven Spielberg flick Minority Report? That’s the one based on Philip K. Dick’s short story in which the police force’s PreCrime unit can presage that a citizen will violate the law in the future, so they arrest him now even though he has committed no crime.
That’s the same vibe we
April 19-20, 2018: Land Use Institute, Detroit (Printable Brochure)
Here’s the printable brochure with the details on the 32nd Annual Land Use Institute in Detroit, April 19-20, 2018. We’ve plugged the program before so we won’t do so again, except to say that you really should attend because (1) it’s a very good program that won’t take much of your time (fly in for
New Cert Petition: Beach Access, Temporary And Permanent Takings, And Permits To Exercise The Right To Exclude
Here’s the cert petition, filed today by SCOTUS superstar Paul Clement in a case we’ve been following out of Northern California.
Here are the Questions Presented:
This case involves a stretch of private property along the California coast known as Martins Beach. The California Coastal Commission and the County of San Mateo want Martins