News just in: we’ve just received confirmation that the Conference will not be in-person in Scottsdale in January 2021, and we’re going online.
Not a big surprise, but still a bit disappointing, and it’s a shame that the circumstances won’t allow us to meet in-person to talk shop and to renew our friendships like we
A short while ago, we featured the cert petition in a case from the Big Island that we’ve been following as various pieces of it went up and down through both the state and federal court systems. See “New (Mike Berger) Cert Petition: ‘This case is the proverbial ‘Exhibit A’ of much that is
We’re done with our first day of class for the upper-level students at William and Mary. We’re teaching two courses this semester, the usual Eminent Domain and Property Rights, but also Land Use Law. We were set to begin a semester of “hybrid” instruction (some students in the classroom, with distancing in place, while others
We can’t pretend that we understand everything that is going on in the Supreme Court of India’s recent opinion in Hari Krishna Mandir Trust v. State of Maharashtra, No. 2013-6156 (Aug. 7, 2020) (but when has that ever stopped us before?), but after reviewing the decision, we thought we would post it because of
Registration is up and online. Join us (online) for the 2020 Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference. Tuition: free, unless you want CLE credit (in which case it is a very modest $100). Because this conference has gone virtual, the usual Wren Building awards banquet to honor this year’s B-K Prize winner, lawprof Henry Smith
Check out the U.S. Court of Appeals’ opinion in Oneida Nation v. Village of Hobart, No. 19-1981 (July 30, 2020). The question was whether a local municipality has the power to regulate activity within the Village’s jurisdiction when that municipality is also wholly within the Oneida Nation.
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Nothing much to see in the Massachusetts Court of Appeals’ opinion in Comstock v. Zoning Board of Appeals of Gloucester, No. 19-P-1163 (Aug. 3, 2020), a somewhat typical zoning dispute.
Neighbor vs neighbor, over whether permits issued by a municipality (and approved by the ZBA) to renovate and replace an existing — but dilapidated
Here’s the cert petition that we’ve been waiting to drop in a case we’ve been following. Last we checked in, the Ninth Circuit (with concurral) had denied en banc review, over a dissental.
In Cedar Point Nursery v. Shiroma, 923 F.3d 524 (May 8, 2019), a 2-1 panel of the Ninth Circuit
by David Lee Callies
Coming soon (August), a new book from lawprof David Callies on what might be our favorite subject, regulatory takings.
We had a chance to review the proofs, and we highly recommend this one for your bookshelf. We’ll bring you more once published. But for now, you can reserve your copy here
Here’s the latest in a case we’ve been following for what seems like forever. This is also a fact situation that has resulted in litigation in a variety of different fora, and at times has seemed like the final exam question in a Federal Courts law school class. We wrote about this latest
