We're in the final stages of getting the agenda ready for the 2017 ALI-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation Conference, to be held in San Diego, California, on January 26-28, 2017. Look for the official announcement of the program soon.
In the meantime, we thought this preview of one of the topics was particularly appropriate to be noted today, the 50th anniversary of the broadcast of the first episode of the TV show Star Trek.
"Everything About Eminent Domain I Need To Know I Learned From Star Trek: Do the Needs of the Many Outweigh the Needs of the Few?"
Yes, we're going there. Maybe not "where no man has gone before," and we can't promise that the remaining members of the Starship Enterprise crew will be speaking at our Conference, but we do promise that this presentation will translate the pop culture phenomenon that is Star Trek and relate it to things like the Armstrong principle ("The Fifth Amendment's guarantee that private property shall not be taken for a public use without just compensation was designed to bar Government from forcing some people alone to bear public burdens which, in all fairness and justice, should be borne by the public as a whole."), and other topics near and dear to we eminent domain and dirt lawyers.
Stay tuned. The full conference agenda will be out soon, and we think you're going to like it and you'll want to come. We hope you join us in January. Our Austin program earlier this year was one of the best in years, and we're hoping to repeat that in San Diego. More information, including registration and hotel here.
In the interim, enjoy the above video, a bit of Prime Directive-violating Con Law smackdown courtesy of James Tiberius Kirk.
