When you are building a sewer, grading is important. Otherwise, the stuff might not “flow” correctly, if you get our drift. Okay Public Works Authority built a sewer, and guess what? “The work performed by OPWA caused extensive damage” to private property, and the “lines installed by OPWA had not been properly graded.”
Not good.
Here’s a really short one from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Not published, so even shorter than you might expect.
In Virginia Hospital & Healthcare Ass’n v. Kimsey, No. 20-2176 (Mar. 1, 2022), the court rejected the Commonwealth’s argument that the sole remedy for a takings claim is just compensation.
Well, that was quick. Last month, as we reported here, the a Ninth Circuit panel held that the City of Oakland, California, could require property owners to pay thousands of dollars in what is branded “relocation fee” to their tenants as a precondition of the owner moving into their own property. This isn’t an
Some good news: our Pacific Legal Foundation colleague Jim Burling is slated to receive the 2022 Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Prize in September.
Check out the media release, with more details:
James Burling, Vice President of Legal Affairs at Pacific Legal Foundation, will receive the 2022 Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Prize at William & Mary Law School’s
We gotta be honest here: when the substantive portion of an opinion (even an opinion about takings and exactions) begins with, “Congress created the Enterprises to, inter alia, provide liquidity to the mortgage market…” our eyes kind of glaze over. It’s going to be one of those opinions.
But we soldiered on, and slogged
Lately, we’ve been zeroing in on one of the lesser known parts of the Supreme Court’s takings canon, Yee v. City of Escondido, 503 U.S. 519 (1992), where the Court concluded that a city ordinance that limited the amount a property owner could charge a tenant for rent was not a physical invasion taking.
Thank you to the editors over at The Practical Real Estate Lawyer for publishing my missive on Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid, the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent blockbuster regulatory takings decision (and for letting me post a copy of the article here so it is available even if you are not a PREL subscriber).
Sorry about the headline, but come on, man! We have to use clickbaity headlines every now and then to get your attention. Here’s the latest in a case we’ve been following.
Yesterday, the Supreme Court of Canada heard oral arguments in Annapolis Group Inc v. Halifax Regional Municipality, a case involving “de facto
Check this out: the International Right of Way Association’s Real Estate Law Committee produces twice-a-year reports “which contain summaries of eminent domain decisions and legislation within the United States.” (This is the “international” right of way association, so that last qualifier is important.)
And what is really nice is that they make the report available
After a two-year absence in which we went remote, in the last week of last month (our usual spot on the calendar, between the playoffs and Super Bowl), we once again met in-person for the American Law Institute-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation Conference.
Approximately 200 lawyers, judges, legal scholars, appraisers, law students
