property

Yesterday’s U.S. Supreme Court’s 8-1 decision in Havana Docks Corp. v. Royal Carribean Cruises, Ltd., No. 24-983 (May 22, 2026) involves a taking without compensation (although not the type of taking we usually discuss here) by the then-new communist government of Cuba. But it does give us some insight to how the Court views property. In this case, the term “property” as defined in a federal statute creating a private right of action against someone who traffics in property seized by the Cuban communist government after the 1959 revolution. …
Continue Reading Usufruct That! Some Clues On How SCOTUS Views Property As “Physical Things” And Not Just Sticks Or Interests

We’ve been following the stories of the State of Washington’s recent adoption of a tax on income in excess of one million dollars per year. There’s lots of talk about this income tax violating the State Constitution, also. We’re not up on our Washington constitutional law, so we were intrigued: does the state constitution really ban income taxation? We found the answer interesting (and based in our favorite topic, property), so we thought we would post it here. …
Continue Reading Income As Property, And Washington’s New “Millionaire Tax”