Our friends Kristen and Dave at the Infrastructure Junkies Podcast are doing what we hoped they would: they’ve convinced Clint Schumacher to appear as a guest and reflect on his Eminent Domain Podcast, which has produced its final episode:
The popular Eminent Domain Podcast signed off after a successful six year run. The
Note: this is the second of our posts on the recent Supreme Court opinions in Sheetz v. County of El Dorado, the case in which the unanimous Court held that exactions imposed by legislation are not exempt from the essential nexus (Nollan) and rough proportionality (Dolan) standards. Here’s our first post
Note: this is the second of our posts on the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in Devillier v. Texas. The first — which tries to put the weird post-opinion controversy over which party “won” at the Supreme Court into its proper perspective — is here.
In this post we’ll cover the case’s
The winner takes it all
The loser’s standing small
Beside the victory
That’s her destiny
Note: this is the first of a short series of posts on the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in Devillier v. Texas.
In Part II, we’ll cover the case, the procedural path that Texas dragged everyone through,
If there’s a money quote in yesterday’s opinion by the Supreme Court of Nevada which “wholly affirm[ed] a trial court judgment awarding $48 million in just compensation for Las Vegas’s regulatory taking in City of Las Vegas v. 180 Land Co., LLC, No. 24-13605 (Apr. 18, 2024), it might just be this sentence:
Although
Guess where we stopped for coffee this morning?
(A reminder: this case has nothing to do
with the convenience store.)
Note: this is the first of two posts on the recent Supreme Court opinions in Sheetz v. County of El Dorado, the case in which the unanimous Court held that exactions imposed by
Here’s what folks are saying about yesterday’s unanimous U.S. Supreme Court decision in Sheetz v. County of El Dorado, where the Court held that impact fees and exactions imposed by legislative action are not categorically immune from the close nexus and rough proportionality requirements already applicable to ad hoc/administratively-imposed exactions under Nollan, Dolan, and
This just in: the U.S. Supreme Court has issued a unanimous opinion in Sheetz v. County of El Dorado, a case we’ve been following (not only because it is one of ours).
The Court, as predicted, held that an exaction (in this case a traffic impact fee) isn’t immune from the Nollan/Dolan nexus
This one takes a bit of sifting through, but if you do so, you will eventually savor the arguments. Try and follow this thread.
In 2014, pistachio growers with what seemed to be established rights to pump groundwater for irrigation of their trees and who never had to pay fees or were subject to other
