Who must may be counted for reapportionment purposes?
Everyone!
A slight detour from our usual fare, to post some thoughts about today’s big U.S. Supreme Court opinion on election law in Evenwel v. Abbott, No. 14-940. Evenwel is the sleeper case of the Term, and opened the possibility that the we might
The only issue in Caffe Ribs, Inc. v. Texas, No. 14-0193 (Apr. 1, 2016) was whether the jury could hear evidence proffered by the property owner that the delay in cleaning up the land to make it marketable could have been attributable to the government. The trial court said no, and the court of
TEXT a written report
Earlier this week, we posted our visit to the site of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Hadacheck v. Sebastian, 239 U.S. 394 (1915). It’s been over 100 years since that case was decided by the Court, but to Hinga Mbogo, the Dallas auto mechanic profiled in the above video from the Institute for
In most cases — as you can probably tell — we’re rooting for the property owner. But there are some cases where we’re okay with suspending our usual predilections. The case which resulted in the Oklahoma Supreme Court’s opinion in Dani v. Miller, No. 114482 (Mar. 29, 2016) is one of those.
It’s a long opinion
Here’s a new cert petition, seeking SCOTUS review of an unpublished opinion from the Eleventh Circuit. That court concluded that Dibbs’ equal protection challenge to the Hillsborough County’s Community Plan failed because he could not identify others who were similarly situated but treated differently.
Dibbs asserted. among other claims, that the County treated
As part of a railroad realignment project, Salt Lake City needed B’s land. But B wouldn’t sell, and since B’s land was already committed to public use as a power substation, the city had doubts whether it could condemn it. So the city and B agreed that B would voluntarily give the city the land
Rhode Island has a provision in its constitution which allows condemning agencies to take more property than they might actually need “for actual construction” when building “public highways, streets, places, [and] parks or parkways.” See R.I. Const. art. VI, § 19. This provision also requires that in the event the condemnor doesn’t use
A nondescript corner of what could be just about any urban city street in America. Nothing of overwhelming interest, just the usual commercial buildings, traffic signals, and small businesses. A self-storage facility. Pretty typical in a Commercial district. Here, the “C-4 District.”
Nothing at all, in fact, to indicate that just over a century ago, this was
Today is Good Friday, an official state holiday in Hawaii, so we’re reposting our annual recounting of how it came to be that the State commemorates the date of the crucifixion, and how that squares with the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.
Turns out that we don’t really commemorate today as the crucifixion date