If you get this, you need to attend the 37th Annual ALI-CLE Eminent Domain & Land Valuation Litigation Conference, January 23-25, 2020, in Nashville.
And if you don’t get this, you need to attend more.
HAWSCT: When Agency Includes Conditions In Phase 1 Land Use Permit, But Later Removes The Conditions In Phase 2 Permit, Party Who Asked For Conditions Is Entitled To Notification
Here’s the latest opinion about land use from the Hawaii Supreme Court. Unite Here! Local 5 v. Dep’t of Planning & Permitting, No. SCAP-17-823 (Haw. Dec. 13, 2019). Because our Damon Key partner Greg Kugle was the prevailing lawyer in the case, we won’t go into detail about the opinion, but leave it
What’s At 712 4th Street, S.W., Washington DC? Your Invite To The 2020 ALI-CLE Eminent Domain Conference (Jan 23-25, Nashville)
Don’t Miss Out: Join The “Big Guns” And Secure Your Space At ALI-CLE’s Upcoming Eminent Domain & Land Valuation Litigation Conference (Jan 23-25, 2020, Nashville)
We were not as creative as our colleague Paul Henry (see below), but our Planning Co-Chair Joe Waldo and I wanted to personally invite you to join the “big guns” in our area of law at the 37th Annual ALI-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation Conference, January 23-25, 2020, in Nashville, Tennessee.
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Latest In SCOTUS Penn Central Cert Petition
Here’s the latest in a case we’ve been following for a while, Smyth v. Conservation Comm’n of Falmouth, No. 19-223 (cert. petition filed Aug. 16, 2019).
The petition seeks review of a Massachusetts decision which held that a judge, not a jury, determines Penn Central takings questions, and also that the owner lost anyhow
Connecticut: “Hardship” For Variances Means Inverse Condemnation
We think the Connecticut Supreme Court’s opinion in Mayer-Whitman v. Zoning Board of Appeals, No. SC 19972 (Nov. 5, 2019) is worth a read, even if it does not break new ground, because it does a good job of explaining some basic principles.
Quick story: Breunich had a house. It didn’t conform to height
All Of Our Past California Wildfires And Inverse Condemnation Posts
With the ongoing wildfire dramas ongoing across California, several of you have asked us to collect the posts we have done about inverse condemnation liability in one place. So here you go:
- Lights Out In The Land Of No: The Practical Effects Of California’s Wildfire Inverse Condemnation Doctrine
- Cal Supreme Court: Stop Saying Inverse Condemnation
ALI-CLE Eminent Domain & Land Valuation Litigation Conference – Jan 23-25, 2020, Nashville
2019 Brigham-Kanner Conference: The New New Property – Public Resources And Private Rights
Here is a transcript of the remarks I delivered today at the 2019 Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference. I was honored to join lawprof Henry Smith and Florida Supreme Court Justice (ret.) Ken Bell (who authored the Florida court’s opinion in Stop the Beach Renourishment which was challenged in SCOTUS as a “judicial taking”) to speak
2019 Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference Kickoff
Today’s the kickoff events for William and Mary Law School’s Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference. We started the day with eminent domain and property law attorneys speaking about the practice of law (pictured above, Justin Hodge (TX) and Christian Torgrimson (GA)).
Toronto’s Shane Rayman and I spoke about international and comparative property and eminent domain