Tyler v. Hennepin County wasn’t the only property rights opinion issued by the Supreme Court in one of my law firm’s cases last week.
There’s this one, which we’ve been waiting a lot longer to drop (oral arguments were held on the first day of the Court’s term back in October), Sackett v. Envt’l
Here are what others are saying about Supreme Court’s recent ruling in Tyler v. Hennepin County, No. 22-166 (U.S. May 25, 2023), the case in which the Court unanimously held that the county’s keeping the excess equity in Ms. Tyler’s home over what she owed in property taxes and fees is an uncompensated taking
If you know, you know.
Pacific Legal Foundation (that’s us) has put out a call for papers about “Rethinking Penn Central.” Here’s the details (pdf).
Here’s some of the suggested topics:
We’ll be rendering to unto Caesar, but first we must
decide: classic or creamy?
That was quick: it seems like it was only yesterday — or maybe more accurately, less than a month ago — that we were listening in live to the Supreme Court as it heard arguments in Tyler v. Hennepin County
Check out this one from the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, Smiley First, LLC v. Dep’t of Transportation, No. SJC-13300 (May 23, 2023). [But first, a disclosure: our law firm filed this amicus brief in support of the property owner.]
Now that that is out of the way, here’s the case.
Back in 1991, MassDOT’s
When a court’s opinion (even a trial court’s opinion) starts out with the epigram, “‘Freedom and property rights are inseparable, you cannot have one without the other.’- George Washington,” you know you are in for a ride.
So begins the opinion of the Clay County, Iowa District Court in Navigator Heartland, LLC v.
Here’s the latest in a case we’ve been following since its inception, this cert petition seeking Supreme Court review of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit’s affirming the district court’s dismissal of a complaint alleging that New York (state)’s sweeping amendments to its Rent Stabilization (rent control) statute effected categorical and
Thank you to to good folks at ALI-CLE’s The Practical Lawyer, for putting me together with Rajiv Khanna, and memorializing our recent conversation in this piece to be published in next month’s issue: “Conversation With a Colleague: Robert Thomas,” The Practical Lawyer (ALI-CLE June 2023).
Rajiv and I chatted about property law
When we last visited Sheetz v. El Dorado County, we finished with “stay tuned” because we suspected that the California Court of Appeal’s opinion concluding that the County’s traffic mitigation fee is immune from Nollan/Dolan nexus-and-rough-proportionality review because the legislature imposed the fee on everyone (and Sheetz was not subject to paying it because
Missed out on the 2023 ALI-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation Conference back in February in Austin, and the legendary “Condemnation 101” track?
Well, here’s your chance to get the knowledge. On May 18, 2023, ALI-CLE is going live with a rebroadcast of that program, including real-time Q & A