Wednesday Round-Up

Here's what we're reading today:

• Debating the Constitutinality of New York's Blight Condemnations - lawprof Ilya Somin, via Volokh.

• Our colleagues at the California Eminent Domain Report on "The Anti-SLAPP, Something to Remember"

• House Shelves Hawaii Vacation Rental Bill - a follow up from Honolulu Civil Beat to this story. 

• The good folks at Sheppard Mullin give us their view of the PPL Montana opinion.

• The rent is too damn high! - Reason Foundation on "The Case Against Rent Control"

Also, here's an inverse condemnation case we're watching that the Texas Supreme Court recently agreed to review:

• The Supreme Court of Texas Blog on Kopplow Dev., Inc. v. City of San Antonio, No. 11-0104: "The city built a water project that affected the use of Kopplow’s property, and after being sued for inverse condemnation, the city decided to sue to condemn the land outright. The petition raises a variety of issues, including how to value the portion of the land taken."

• Here are the briefs.

• Here's the docket.