My thanks to Bart Freedman (K&L Gates) and Kinnon Williams (Inslee Best Doezie & Ryder) for asking me to speak on national takings and inverse condemnation issues at yesterday's Eminent Domain conference in Seattle.
As you can see, the room was packed and standing room only. Here are the cases and issues I mentioned during my talk, "National Takings Trends, Hot Practice Areas, and Property Rights in the Age of Trump:"
- Texas border walls: Gideon Kanner on federal takings; eminent domain and the (2008) border fence; is there a "border patrol" servitude?; seizures at border inspections and takings; a (northern) border story, from Washington state;
- Pipelines and energy transmission corridors: Pennsylvania Supreme Court on public use. Pennsylvania appeals court on public use and the polar vortex.
- Pipelines and energy corridors II: Through Kentucky and "public" use.
- Flooding cases - a hot topic.
- Lessons for eminent domain pretext from the Immigration EO case.
- Municipal utility takeovers: public ownership on Montana water company is "more necessary."
- Project announcement: North Carolina's Map Act, Nevada Supreme Court, California Court of Appeal.
- Sharing economy: Seventh Circuit (Posner) on Uber vs taxis. Georgia Supreme Court's recent opinion on sharing economy takings.
- SWAT taking.
- Uniform Relocation Act and inverse condemnation attorneys' fees.
- South Carolina: attorneys' fees as "property."
- Cases to watch II: Violet Port Dock - Louisiana Supreme Court considering public use.
- Cases to Watch II: Murr v. Wisconsin - the larger parcel in regulatory takings.
