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We’re on our third day at the 2018 ALI-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Conference in Charleston, SC, and as usual, we’re having our headline presentations by takings guru Michael Berger (pictured above), who is updating us on the most interesting and important cases of the past year, and Jim Burling, who will

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This morning, at the 2018 ALI-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation Conference in Charleston, South Carolina, we announced the dates and venue for the 2019 Conference: Palm Springs, California.

The conference hotel is the Renaissance Palm Springs Hotel, which has the advantage of being a resort facility, but right in town (so you

Stewart Yerton, a reporter at Honolulu Civil Beat but also a lawyer, has posted a report about an ongoing eminent domain case in which the State of Hawaii’s Attorney General is condemning a one-acre parcel on the south shore of Maui, property which the State had been leasing on a long-term 30-year lease. The

Here’s the first post-Murr cert petition (as far as we can tell), in a case we’ve been following. As we wrote in “The First Post-Murr Case? Fourth Circuit: No Taking Because Anti-Development Merger Regulations Actually Make Property Developable,” the Fourth Circuit concluded:

[T]he County’s regulations were run-of-the-mill zoning/land use ordinances, and thus

35th Annual Advanced Course

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Land Valuation Litigation

Live Program | Video Webcast | Video Webcast Segments

Thursday – Saturday, January 25 – 27, 2018
Francis Marion Hotel | Charleston, SC

Do not miss this popular conference! Intended for all eminent domain and land use practitioners, both experienced and those new to the

As we reported earlier (“Mississippi: Statute That Says No Private Takings For Access Within City Limits Means Just That“), as in many other states, in Mississippi, a private property owner may institute eminent domain proceedings to take a neighbor’s land when doing so is necessary for a landlocked parcel to gain ingress and