Another must-listen episode of Clint’s Eminent Domain Podcast. He’s joined by Pepperdine Law School Professor Shelley Ross Saxer:
Professor Shelley Ross Saxer joins the show to discuss the role that the damaging clauses found in more than half of state constitutions across the United States play in inverse condemnation claims related to natural disasters
Yesterday, during the Annual Meeting of the Hawaii State Bar Association, we participated in a program sponsored by the Real Property and Financial Services Section, “Inverse Condemnation & Paying for Disasters.”
As you can see above, we joined lawprofs Shelley Saxer and David Callies to share thoughts about inverse claims, and the difference
Here’s the latest in a case and an issue we’ve been following.
Recall that the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas concluded that the City of McKinney, Texas was liable for the taking of Vicki Baker’s home, after city police officers destroyed a large part of it while apprehending a suspect
Why is it, you ask, that the ALI-CLE Eminent Domain & Land Valuation Litigation Conference (scheduled next February 1-3, 2024, in New Orleans) is an event that seems to be growing in popularity and attendance. In recent years, we have standing room only in the Conference halls, and have sold out the hotel block.
Early registration is a good thing because space is limited, especially at the Wren Building banquet on the 26th, at which the 2023 B-K Property Rights
Here’s our colleague and friend, Pepperdine lawprof Shelley Saxer, an expert on inverse condemnation and its use in mass disaster cases, on the use of inverse condemnation as a theory of recovery for the Maui disaster. Here’s the description from Bloomberg Law Podcast:
“Shelley Ross Saxer, a law professor at Pepperdine University, discusses the Lahaina
On this morning’s drive-time program, we joined KHVH’s Rick Hamada about whether Hawaii might adopt California’s version of inverse condemnation liability in wildfire cases. We also tried to clear up a few misconceptions (gad, I used “disinformation,” a term I try to eschew).
Here’s the program description:
Inverse Condemnation and Maui Wildfires: A Conversation with
Well, that was quick. As reported here (“HECO Kept The Power Flowing In Lahaina Even As Poles Toppled“), we’ve already seen the first lawsuit filed seeking recovery for the Maui wildfire that destroyed Lahaina town — a class action even before there’s been any official word about what caused or contributed to the
Here’s the latest in a case we’ve been following.
In Ideker Farms, Inc. v. United States, No. 21-1949 (June 16, 2023), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held that temporary, but recurring government-caused flooding was correctly treated by the Court of Federal Claims as a categorical per se taking, and
Check this out, a recently-filed cert petition in a case we’ve been following, filed by our friends and colleagues at the Institute for Justice. This one involves an issue we’ve been on top of also, most recently in these two cases (see here and here).
That is, what does the Supreme Court’s description