The Honolulu Star-Bulletin reports an interesting AP story from Washington state, "A good fence makes ... trouble," about property owners whose fence on their own property has been threatened by an obscure federal agency:
Herbert and Shirley-Ann Leu were thinking landscaping, not politics, when they built an 85-foot-long concrete wall in their back yard.
But their yard happens to run along the U.S.-Canadian border -- a situation that has put the Leus in the middle of a property rights battle, led the Bush administration to fire its own handpicked border caretaker and given rise to a legal dispute over the extent of presidential authority.
Full story. The property owners are being represented by my Pacific Legal Foundation colleagues, whose take on the case is posted here.
this blog is...
- devoted to recent developments and commentary on regulatory takings, eminent domain, inverse condemnation, property rights, land use law, and (occasionally) election law.
Author
- Robert H. Thomas is a land use, eminent domain, and appellate lawyer based in Honolulu, Hawaii
Starting in the fall of 2018, he serves as the Joseph T. Waldo Visiting Chair in Property Rights Law at the William & Mary Law School in Williamsburg, Virginia.
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All upcoming and past seminars, conferences, and events here
At the 2016 Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference in the Hague, The Netherlands (October 19-20, 2016, I'm speaking on two panels: "Property's Role in the Fundamental Political Structure of Nations," and "Defining and Protecting Property Rights in Intangible Assets." More information here.
books & articles
The Law of Eminent Domain - A Fifty State Survey (ABA 2011)
Eminent Domain - A Handbook of Condemnation Law (ABA 2011)
At the Cutting Edge 2009: Land Use Law from The Urban Lawyer (D. Merriam, ed. 2010)
Recent Developments in Public Use and Pretext in Eminent Domain, 41 Urban Lawyer 563 (Oct. 2009)
The Ninth Circuit Rediscovers Substantive Due Process in Land Use Cases (Dec. 2008)
podcasts
Interview With The Filmmaker: Michael Galinsky On "Battle of Brooklyn"
Taking Accretion By Legal Erosion: Summary Of The Oral Arguments In The Hawaii Beach Takings CaseThe Kauai Property Tax Charter Amendment Case (KKCR FM 92.7)
Legal and Other Issues In Honolulu's Rail Project (Think Tech Hawaii, KIPO FM 89.3)
live blog archive
- Judge McKenna Senate Hearing (2/4/2011)
Governor's Announcement of Judge Sabrina McKenna as Associate Justice, HAWSCT (1/25/2011)
Must A Property Owner Seek To Change The Law To Ripen A Federal Takings Claim? (HAWICA, 12/8/2010)
Justice Recktenwald Senate Hearing (8/25/2010)
Judge Leonard Senate Hearing (8/3/2010)
New Jersey's "Bizarre Condemnation" - Klumpp v. Borough of Avalon (NJ Supreme Court, 3/22/2010)
Columbia Eminent Domain Oral Arguments (NY Court of Appeals 6/1/2010)
Turtle Bay/Kuilima Supplemental EIS case (HAWSCT, 12/17/2009)
Atlantic Yards eminent domain abuse (NY Court of Appeals, 10/14/2009)
Ala Loop Homeowners: are state zoning laws "environmental" statutes (HAWSCT, 10/14/2009)
links
- Professor Mandelker's Land Use Law
- Julie Tappendorf's Municipal Minute
- Professor Kanner's Gideon's Trumpet
- Bulldozers at Your Doorstep - Goldstein, Rikon, Rikon & Houghton
- Eminent Domain Law Blog by Owners Counsel of America
- Rick Rayl's California Eminent Domain Report
- ABA State & Local Govt Law Section, Condemnation Law Committee
- Mark Murakami's Hawaii Ocean Law
- Dwight Merriam's RLUIPA Defense
- McKirdy & Riskin's NJ Condemnation Law
- Tred Eyerly's Insurance Law Hawaii
- Dean Patty Salkin's Law of the Land
- PLF's Liberty Blog
- Ackerman Ackerman & Dynkowski's National Eminent Domain Blog
- Jesse Souki's Hawaii Land Use Law & Policy
- New Jersey Eminent Domain Law Blog
reviews
Battle For Brooklyn (Rumur Films 2011)
Regulating Paradise: Land Use Controls in Hawaii by Professor David J. Callies (2d ed. 2010)
Regulatory Takings by Professor Steven J. Eagle (2013)
Takings International: A Comparative Perspective on Land Use Regulations and Compensation Rights, Professor Rachelle Alterman, ed. (ABA Section of State and Local Government Law 2010)
Property Rights, Eminent Domain, and Regulatory Takings Re-Examined Bruce L. Benson, ed. (Independence Institute 2010)
Little Pink House - A True Story of Defiance and Courage by Jeff Benedict (2009)
The Complete Guide to Zoning by Dwight H. Merriam (2005)
Bulldozed: 'Kelo,' Eminent Domain and the American Lust for Land by Carla T. Main (2007)
Eminent Domain Use and Abuse: Kelo in Context, Dwight H. Merriam, editor (2007)
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Recent Posts
- Who Is In Charge At The County Of Maui? SCOTUS OA Hinges On Internal Dispute Over Who Can Settle
- Amicus Brief: Federal Circuit Assumes Plaintiffs Understand SCOTUS' Regulatory Takings Doctrine Better Than SCOTUS Understands Regulatory Takings Doctrine
- ALI-CLE Eminent Domain & Land Valuation Litigation Conference - Jan 23-25, 2020, Nashville
- Cert Denied (Again) In Quick-Take-By-Injunction Pipeline Case
- 2019 Brigham-Kanner Conference: The New New Property - Public Resources And Private Rights
- 2019 Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference Kickoff
- New Article: Emerging Issues in Property Law (Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Journal)
- HAWSCT: Insurer's Duty Of Good Faith Claims Processing Covers Its Conduct Before Submission Of A Claim
- Video: HSBA Real Property Section's Annual Litigation Update
- A Different Form Of "Public Use" - City Land Subject To Adverse Possession Claim
October 2019
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