January 2021

1o 11 ALI-CLE

Are you a law student interested in takings, eminent domain, land use, environmental, and other dirt-lawyering related topics? If so, good news: thanks to the generosity of ALI-CLE, you can register gratis (free!) for the upcoming 38th Annual Eminent Domain & Land Valuation Litigation Conference, to be held remotely on Thursday and Friday, January 28-29, 2021.

This is the “big one” where the nation’s best practitioners, scholars, jurists, and other industry professionals gather to talk shop about the subjects we know and love. We’re having programs with intriguing subjects such as “Planning to Win: Practical Strategies for a Successful Inverse Condemnation Case,” “How Do I Keep My Firm’s Doors Open When the Courthouse Doors Are Closed? Making Your Practice More Efficient When You Can’t Try Cases,” “Where Is the Supreme Court Headed on Takings Cases? Regulatory Takings Update and Cedar Point Preview,” “No Show and All Tell: …

Continue Reading Law Students: Register Free For The 38th Annual ALI-CLE Eminent Domain & Land Valuation Litigation Conference (Jan 28-29, 2021)

As we surmised when the Supreme Court in Knick reopened the door to the federal courthouse for federal takings claims, those of us who do this stuff would be wise to dust off the Federal Courts treatises that we’d put on the high shelf on the bookshelf since Williamson County.

The Sixth Circuit’s opinion in CHKRS, LLC v. City of Dublin, No. 20-3435 (Jan. 4, 2021) focused on the difference between whether the plaintiff alleged Article III standing, and whether it alleged a property interest protected by the Takings Clause. CHKRS’s federal complaint claimed the city violated the Takings Clause “when it tore out a property’s driveway and replaced it with a defective driveway without paying compensation.” Slip op. at 2. At the time of the city’s conduct, CHKRS possessed a lease in the land, and by the time of the federal lawsuit, it had exercised its…

Continue Reading CA6: It’s Property, Not Standing, In Federal Takings Cases

Our thanks to Clint Schumacher for having us on his program to talk about the upcoming Conference. We’re “remote” this year, but that means a different approach to our presentations (and a very modest tuition!).

We’re having programs with intriguing subjects such as “Planning to Win: Practical Strategies for a Successful Inverse Condemnation Case,” “How Do I Keep My Firm’s Doors Open When the Courthouse Doors Are Closed? Making Your Practice More Efficient When You Can’t Try Cases,” “Where Is the Supreme Court Headed on Takings Cases? Regulatory Takings Update and Cedar Point Preview,” “No Show and All Tell: Breaking News in Property Rights and Takings,” “More Than the Fifth Amendment: Other Tools for Upholding Property Rights,” “Evaluating Lockdown, Moratorium, and Emergency Claims,” and more (including Ethics for those of you in MCLE jurisdictions). We’ll have a post with more details. 

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