Check out this recently-published article by colleague Robert (Bob) Grace, MAI, “Assessing Change in Market Value of Rural Real Property Post-Wildfire in the Great Plains” in the latest issue of the Appraisal Journal.
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Registration is open and underway for this year’s edition of the Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute in Denver, March 5-7, 2025. Location: University of Denver Sturm College of Law.
This conference is more what we’ll call “land usey” than ALI-CLE’s Eminent Domain & Land Valuation Litigation Conference (as the respective titles suggest), but there’s a
Check this out, a recent Fourth Branch pod featuring lawprof Donald Kochan and our law firm colleague Jeremy Talcott, “Explainer Episode 85 – Rebuilding California: Lessons from the Pacific Palisades Fire.”
Here’s the description:
The 2025 Pacific Palisades Fire has underscored the challenges of building in California’s complex regulatory landscape. In response
Here’s what we’re reading this day:
You remember 1977, don’t you? No? Well surely you must know the soundtrack. Sublime and deeply resonant music, accompanied by complex-yet-meaningful lyrics like these:
I’m your boogie man, that’s what I am.
I’m here to do whatever I can.
Be it early morning, late afternoon.
Or at midnight, it’s never too soon.
To wanna please
For those of you who follow the wildfire/inverse cases (centered in, although not exclusively, California and Hawaii), you might want to check out this article by a fire engineer: Vytenis Babrauskas (aka “Dr. Fire“), “Electricity-Caused Wildland Fires: Costs, Social Fairness, and Proposed Solution.”
As the title suggests, the article is
Here are the cases and other materials we discussed in today’s Section of State & Local Government Law Land Use group meeting on takings:
The line between negligence torts and inverse condemnation can be a fine one. In Roman Realty, LLC v. City of Morgantown, No. 220587 (June 11, 2024), the West Virginia Supreme Court came down on the tort side.
Now before we go on, a caution: technically speaking the claimant did not assert an inverse condemnation
In Simple Avo Paradise Ranch, LLC v. So. Cal Edison Co., No. B320948 (May 23, 2024), the California Court of Appeal (Second District) held that a complaint adequately alleged a claim for inverse condemnation by asserting a privately-owned public utility’s actions substantially caused a wildfire.
The court rejected the utility’s argument that alleging that
Today’s the day, 191 years ago, when — a mere 5 days after oral arguments — the U.S. Supreme Court issued its (in)famous opinion in Barron ex rel. Tiernan v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, 32 U.S. 243 (1833).
Generations of law students study this one in their Con Law classes, and it