If you understand this post’s headline, congratulations: you are the nerdiest of law nerds, checking no less than two boxes in the obscure law category, takings and patent law.
But if you have been paying attention here, you know that recently, the Supreme Court, in Oil States Energy Services, LLC v. Greene’s Energy Group
Yesterday, the U.S. Court of Appeals heard arguments about the Mountain Valley Pipeline (which will run from northern West Virginia to southern Virginia), a situation receiving a lot of attention, and which has generated a number of lawsuits (go here for a list of the cases and a summary).
The question in Berkley
Little Pink House, the feature film about the Kelo v. City of New London case is in general release, and is now scheduled for a special screening in Honolulu in June.
Mark two dates on your calendar:
Two cases which we’ve been following are up for consideration on the Supreme Court’s conference schedule today. Indeed, by the time we post this, the conference will likely be over, although we won’t know the results until next week. Check these out, and hold your breath:
A water district, with regulatory approvals and permits from the California Department of Health Services, added chemicals — “secondary disinfectants” — to the tap water system to make the water safe to drink. The water complied with all federal and California drinking standards.
Sounds good. No one wants undrinkable drinking water. Problem was these additives caused
Another week, another Federal Circuit panel opinion on takings authored by Judge Timothy Dyk (following the recent MR-GO opinion). And you know what that means: property owners lose.
The Court of Federal Claims concluded that the feds had taken the plaintiff’s lease of of a part of Dallas’ Love Field — under both a
The conference is being held at the Arizona Biltmore.
Proof that we are actually in the room (and not on the golf course).
Here are the cases which I mentioned at today’s conference. What a great turn out (130+ lawyers, appraisers, right-of-way professionals, and others).
Many thanks to colleagues Chris Kramer and Jennifer Cranston for
Surge pricing applies!
You really have to feel for taxi operators who invested what could be huge amounts of money to obtain a taxi medallion getting whacked by the competition from ridesharing outfits like Lyft and Uber. These services look and feel an awful lot like taxis, don’t they? As we wrote in a recent
Here’s one we’ve been waiting to drop, but when it did, we were tied up so couldn’t get to it quickly.
Yes, it’s a patent case. But as we explained here, a case that property mavens should be following because it deals with what is “property,” and where an owner goes to resolve
Here’s what we’re reading today: