Followers of the blog understand that in addition to our usual fare of eminent domain, land use, regulatory takings and the like, we also cover another area, election law and voting rights. That’s a weird feature of our practice, so we post about it. Call it “editor’s prerogative” or something.
But there are actually some
Earlier today, I moderated a panel of expert speakers on the topic of “Civil Forfeiture of Property” at the 12th Annual Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference at William and Mary Law School in Williamsburg, Virginia.
Sara Sun Beale of Duke Law, Scott Bullock of the Institute for Justice, and Sandra Guerra Thompson of the University of Houston
Greetings from the William and Mary Law School in (rainy) Williamsburg, Virginia, where we’re speaking at the 12th Annual Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference.
This year’s B-K Prize winner is Harvard Law’s Joseph Singer, who we wrote is “an interesting choice, given his theory that a ‘robust regulatory structure’ goes hand-in-hand with property
We don’t often post trial court decisions, but this recent ruling from an Idaho trial court awarding a property owner approximately $400,000 in fees and costs was a good read, and we’d like to share it with you all.
This is a ruling issued after a trial to determine just compensation for the partial taking
Check this out, a story in the September 28, 2015 edition of the New York Times, “Owner of Grand Central Sues Developer and City for $1.1 Billion Over Air Rights.”
Reminds us of this obscure Supreme Court case we heard about…
The Times reports that the current owner of Grand Central Terminal
We don’t want to take too much time away from our usual land use, takings, and eminent domain fare, but we just couldn’t let this one go by without comment.
Last Friday, we posted our amici brief in Evenwel v. Abbott, No. 14-940, the reapportionment case which the U.S. Supreme Court is considering. The issue
Look what arrived in the mail, a copy of the ABA Section of State and Local Government Law’s recently-published Municipal Law Deskbook, edited by our friend and colleague, Oregon’s Bill Scheiderich.
We received a gratis copy because we authored the chapter on Regulatory Takings. The book is designed as a quick reference guide
Who gets counted for reapportionment purposes?
Everyone!
Please forgive the deviation (a pun for our election law colleagues) from the blog’s usual land use and takings fare, but frequent readers understand that we also have an interest in election law, and occasionally post up items of interest.
Today we filed this amici brief in Evenwel v. Abbott
We’re continuing our Detroit-themed posts today, with this one about auto bailouts and takings.
We generally don’t post trial court decisions, preferring to wait until we have a published opinion from a court of appeals. But from time to time, we have made exceptions, like here, where the counsel involved are well-known and the issue
We’re in Detroit and environs for the weekend, doing some scouting for an upcoming meeting of the ABA’s Section of State and Local Government Law.
Had a Faygo Redpop at the site of Tiger Stadium in Corktown, dinner in Poletown, a fresh peach at the Saturday Eastern Market, and read this recent Sixth