February 2023

PXL_20230201_135536548.MP
Property Rights – Eminent Domain
(and where to find them on the interwebs)

Count me surprised and touched: when I wore the prototype of our new inversecondemnation.com fleecy swag vest at the recently-completed — and very icyALI-CLE Eminent Domain & Land Valuation Litigation Conference in Austin (see below), quite a few of the folks in attendance asked me where they might obtain one for themselves.

PXL_20230201_170706642
When this is what greets you when you arrive at the
Conference site, you know you need
some fleecy swag

Because it is logo wear, the vest is one of those things that I’d prefer to give away. After all, isn’t the whole point of logo swag to promote the thing so logo’d? To spread the word, or show your affiliation, or promote the brand, or something? To make people pay for the privilege of promoting the blog just doesn’t seem quite right.

Continue Reading Would You Like A Fleecy Inversecondemnation.com Swag Vest? If So, Here’s How To Get Yours

Screenshot 2023-02-07 at 09-17-30 Emerging Issues in Property Rights

Join our Pacific Legal Foundation colleagues Jon Houghton, Daniel Woislaw, Kady Valois, and Sam Spiegelman (moderating) tomorrow, Wednesday, February 8, 2023, at 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. ET for a free webinar, “Emerging Issues in Property Rights.”

Here’s the agenda:

Protecting private property rights has been at the heart of PLF’s work since our founding in 1973. Our view, and that of the American Founders, is that property rights are foundational to all other constitutional rights.

Our relentless defense of property rights has secured many precedented victories, including 12 property rights wins at the U.S. Supreme Court—and counting.

Unfortunately, even today, the need for property rights champions remains critical.

Government officials too often relegate property rights to second-class status among Americans’ constitutional rights—cloaking their assaults in erroneous assertions of environmental protection or cleverly constructed land use restrictions.

To learn more about property rights’ legal landscape in

Continue Reading “Emerging Issues In Property Rights” – Wednesday, February 8, 2023, 3-4pm ET (Free!)