Monday Round-Up

Here's what we're reading today:

• The Nets and NBA Economics - Malcolm Gladwell looks at the Atlantic Yards project, and the role of eminent domain.

• Fifth Circuit holds Severance v. Patterson "rolling beach easement" case is not moot -  From the PLF blog comes this notice that the Texas case about the "rolling easement" can be adjudicated, even though the plaintiff sold the land. This means you need to stay tuned to this case.

• Yale Urban Design Workshop Issues Fort Trumbull Report - Reporting on the attempt to revitalize the revitalization that resulted in Kelo, the New London Patch tells us: "A hotel would join the more visible structures along the waterfront. A band shell would appear on the south lawn of Fort Trumbull State Park. And the site formerly occupied by the famous “little pink house,” relocated after a Supreme Court eminent domain decision, would be filled in with an observation tower. These were some of the proposals put forth in the Yale Urban Design Workshop’s 'Fort Trumbull Vision,' a 75-page report detailing recommendations for the revitalization of the Fort Trumbull peninsula."

• Trying to follow along on the day-to-day goings-on in the challenge to "Obamacare" can leave us with little time for anything else, so here's a one-page primer from our friend Ilya Shapiro at Cato: Obamacare Legal News Gone Wild. You are now well-armed for the "so you're a lawyer?" small talk at your next cocktail party. 

• From lawprof Rick Hasen's Election Law Blog, the latest brief in a case we've been following, Carrigan v. Nevada Comm'n on Ethics. We'll have a complete post on the recent developments later this week.