Here's what we're reading today:
- We know you probably read Professor Gideon Kanner's blog daily, but in case you missed his thoughts about the U.S. Supreme Court's opinion in Arkansas Game and Fish Comm'n v. United States, No. 11-597 (Dec. 4, 2012), please read them here. Today's must-read.
- Today is Pearl Harbor day, so we are linking to our in-person report from last year's remembrance ceremony.
- Check out the cert petition in Johnson v. Paynesville Farmers Union Cooperative Oil Co., No. 12678 (Nov. 29, 2012). The question presented is somewhat opaque and we don't think there's much chance that it will grab the Court's attention, but it does involve an interesting issue about pesticide drift and organic certification. The petition challenges the Minnesota Supreme Court's dismissal of an organic farmer's nuisance and negligence per se claims because federal regulations do not regulate pesticide drift. Here's the Court's docket if you want to follow along.
- More about the use of eminent domain to seize underwater mortgages, from the San Bernardino Sun, "Arguments over eminent domain mortgage seizure program ramp up for 2013." Looks like Mortgage Resolution Partners is on a media blitz.
- From the NY Times: "Post-Storm Cost May Force Many From Coast Life." Includes a quote from our colleague Ed Thomas: "Edward Thomas, a longtime FEMA official who is now president of the Natural Hazard Mitigation Association, said raising a structure even higher than the new minimum elevation was the only prudent option. Premiums when the next maps are adopted could be 'absolutely enormous: a doubling or tripling of the rate,' he said." Between climate change regulations and storms, this is shaping up to be a huge issue.
- The price of a four-bedroom, two-bath home in Hawaii? $742,551, the highest in the nation.
