This just in: friend and colleague, Norfolk, Virginia’s Joe Waldo (already known to many of you, and the long-time planning chair of ALI-CLE’s Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation Conference) has been elected to the American Law Institute as one of its 35 new members.
Congratulations, Joe, on this significant honor!
This is a
Check this out: according to this article (“This SC man won a Supreme Court case. He wants to know why he can’t talk about it“), David Lucas, the lawyer-property owner behind the big reg takings case Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council, 505 U.S. 1003 (1993), was apparently not invited to speak
Update: our colleague Bryan Wenter has his take on one of the cases denied review here (“U.S. Supreme Court Again Declines to Consider Important Property Rights Issue Regarding the Unconstitutional Conditions Doctrine“) (“Because the current composition of the U.S. Supreme Court leans ideologically conservative by any traditional measure and
We’ve been receiving a lot of visits lately from folks looking for information on inverse condemnation liability after the recent Northern California wildfires, and the flooding in Houston. In addition to the news stories (see SF Chronicle wildfire story here, and the Texas Tribune flood story here) which we’ve already posted, here are
Update: Forbes is covering this story, here: Nick Sibilla, “Landowner’s Bill Of Rights Are Not ‘Suggested Guidelines,’ Georgia Supreme Court Rules“
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Here’s a decision which we’ve been waiting for in a case we’ve been following since it was decided in the intermediate appellate court, involving Georgia’s “landowner bill
Update: 10/28/2019: “Lights Out in the Land of No: The Practical Effects of California’s Wildfire Inverse Condemnation Doctrine,” a post about the (ongoing) wildfires and latest developments in inverse condemnation doctrine.
Update 3/12/2018: “California Wildfires, Inverse Condemnation, and Climate Change,” a post about the various responses to the wildfire inverse condemnation
Here are the final two amici briefs in in Jarreau v. South LaFourche Levee District, No. 17-163 (cert. petition filed July 31, 2017), the case asking the Court to consider whether a property owner whose business is destroyed due to an exercise of eminent domain is entitled to just compensation for business losses under the
Okay, we get it: the text of a statute is the text, and it says what it says. And Virginia’s “buyback” statute — which says that if a condemning agency hasn’t started the project for which property was condemned within 20 years, the agency must reconvey it to the owner upon demand — dictates that
Here’s the Reply Brief and Brief in Opposition in Jarreau v. South LaFourche Levee District, No. 17-163 (cert. petition filed July 31, 2017), the case asking the Court to consider whether a property owner whose business is destroyed due to an exercise of eminent domain is entitled to just compensation for business losses.
The
We usually don’t post trial court decisions, preferring instead to wait until the issue works its way up the food chain. But we make exceptions to that general rule when a case catches our eye and is either unusual or otherwise interesting. The U.S. District Court’s opinion in Williams v. The National Gallery of Art,
