SCOTUSblog takes note of our cert petition in Bay Point Properties, Inc. v. Mississippi Transportation Commission, No. 16-1077 (cert. petition filed Mar. 3, 2017), a case which seeks U.S. Supreme Court review of a decision by the Mississippi Supreme Court. We represent the Petitioner.
In the "Petitions to Watch" segment, Aurora Barnes writes:
In its conference of June 22, 2017, the court will consider petitions involving issues such as whether the just-compensation clause prohibits a legislature from limiting how just compensation for a taking is calculated and whether the just-compensation clause allows the jury to value the fee interest taken as if it were still encumbered by a discontinued highway easement; and whether the anti-retaliation provision for “whistleblowers” in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 extends to individuals who have not reported alleged misconduct to the Securities and Exchange Commission and thus fall outside the act’s definition of “whistleblower.”
In "Relist Watch," John Elwood writes:
So let’s see what new grants may be in the offing for next Monday. The biggest of this week’s four new relists, at least as a doctrinal matter, is probably the one involving a legislature’s ability to limit how just compensation for a taking of private property is calculated. But for day-to-day importance, the one involving the whistleblower provisions of Dodd-Frank is nothing to sneeze at.
All of the briefs in the case are posted here.
