Here’s what we’re reading today:
Here’s the latest in the “audacious” takings case brought by AIG against the federal government for the 2008 fed takeover. The heart of the complaint is that the acquisition of AIG was an unconstitutional exaction. The Court of Federal Claims rendered a verdict that was hailed as a groundbreaking victory, but which ultimately
This case — a related case, actually — has been up to the West Virginia Supreme Court before. See “West Virginia: DOT Should Not Have Mined Privately Owned Limestone Without Owner’s Permission.” But even though the underlying facts were the same (the DOT mined limestone from private property without first buying it from the
Thank you, Justice Kagan, for giving us a citeable Spider-Man reference (Kimbel v. Marvel Ent. LLC., 135 S. Ct. 2401, 2415 (2015) (“[I]n this world, with great power, there must also come—responsibility”)), and to The Castle, just for being a good, quotable eminent domain movie.
Here’s one that — although unpublished — is still worth a quick read. Because it’s a case where the Sixth Circuit held that a federal court takings claim against the City of Franklin, Tennessee, which is the seat of Williamson County, Tennessee, should be dismissed under Williamson County because it wasn’t ripe.
In Beech v.
Apparently, property owners setting their buildings on fire to collect the insurance is a thing in Pennsylvania, the location of our story. We say this because the Pennsylvania legislature adopted a statute which requires that before an insurance company pays out proceeds from a fire policy to a “named insured,” it check with the local
The Supreme Court yesterday issued an opinion in an expropriation case we’ve been following.
No, Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela v. Helmerich & Payne International Drilling Co., No. 15-423 (May 1, 2017), isn’t about redevelopment, or public use and the like, but about the nationalization by Venezuela of oil exploration equipment. The owner
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We don’t usually post trial court decisions. They are, obviously, subject to change by an appellate court, and because many are interlocutory, alteration by the rendering court iself.
But for this order from the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida, we’ll make an exception. It’s a land use case (it’s right there
Remember back from Admin Law the notion of a “quasi-judicial” proceeding? That term always has bugged us, because, you know, it was used when an agency was sorta acting like a court (but also was sorta acting like a legislative body). Half full, half empty, take your pick.
The fact pattern presented in the Florida