If you dream such dreams as this photo, read on.
My law firm, Pacific Legal Foundation, is on the hunt for lawyer to join our Property Rights group (yours truly is the Director of Property Rights Litigation, so you will be working with me and the other takings and con law mavens in our practice).
A quick one from the South Carolina Supreme Court.
In Applied Building Sciences, Inc. v. South Carolina Dep’t of Commerce, No. 28184 (Jan. 17, 2024), the court held that the $50,000 cap on relocation benefits provided to ABS by South Carolina’s version of the Relocation Act was enough, and did not deprive ABS of
One week ago today, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Devillier v. Texas.
We wrote up our thoughts in this post, “Rogue States: Today’s Argument In Devillier v. Texas – ‘Aren’t the Courts supposed to do something’ About Violations Of The Constitution?,” and now bring you other reports:
Don’t miss out!
We promise: this is the last time we’re going to try to entice you to the upcoming ALI-CLE Eminent Domain & Land Valuation Litigation Conference in New Orleans. We are getting close to capacity, but there is still room. In recent years, we have standing room only in the Conference halls, and
This season of the Institute for Justice‘s podcast series “Bound by Oath” is devoted to property rights. It’s a fascinating series — produced by John Ross, it is more like an audio documentary than a typical podcast — focusing on constitutional issues. And we say this not just because we’ve been a
We’d guess that most people, if asked whether the courts can “do something” when the government acts beyond the authority delegated to it in the Constitution, would respond that “doing something” is exactly what courts are for.
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And that is what drives our BLUF on today’s Supreme Court oral arguments in
“No need to ask, he’s a smooth operator…”
On Tuesday, January 16, 2024, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case we’ve been following closely because it involves the fundamental limitation on the sovereign power to take private property. In our system, the sovereign indeed has the power to take private property against the
Here is a collection of commentary on the oral arguments in Sheetz v. El Dorado County, heard by the Supreme Court earlier this week. (Our own thoughts here.)
We’ve noted this before, but we shall say it again: if you ever have the opportunity to teach in a law school — either as a full-time legal scholar or part-time as an expert adjunct practitioner — do it if you are at all able. You might think you know a lot about a particular
If you were looking for deep clarity from the Justices about land use law and whether a legislature imposing monetary conditions on property development always gets the free judicial pass of rational basis review in this morning’s oral arguments in Sheetz v. County of El Dorado, you may not discover a lot of predictive