Although we’ve linked to the Nebraska Supreme Court’s non-decision and our colleague’s insightful analysis of the issues, we’ve pretty much avoided anything beyond commenting on the purely legal aspects of the Keystone XL pipeline.
Until now.
Just search Twitter for “eminent domain” and you will see hundreds of tweets Continue Reading Keystone XL Pipeline And The Politics Of False Outrage
Please join us on Thursday, March 12, 2015, 5:30 – 6:30 p.m. for the awarding of the Owners’ Counsel Crystal Eagle to University of Hawaii Law Professor David L. Callies.
We’re inviting his current and former students (of whom there are many), his faculty colleagues, the Hawaii property bar, and friends, for the presentation of the award by which Owners’ Counsel recognizes his decades of property rights scholarship, his advocacy, and his international expertise in property law.
With remarks by The Honorable Sabrina S. McKenna, Associate Justice, Supreme Court of Hawaii.
Professor Callies joins a list of past recipients which includes scholars (Professors James Ely amd Gideon Kanner), Supreme Court advocates (Michael Berger), public interest lawyers (James Burling of Pacific Legal Foundation and Dana Berliner of the Institute for Justice), journalists (Alan Colmes and Sean Hannity), nationally-renown eminent domain lawyers (Toby Brigham), and property owners (Coy Koontz, Jr.).
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Continue Reading March 12, 2015, Honolulu: Awarding Professor David Callies The Crystal Eagle
Here are the posts about the 2015 ALI-CLE Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Conference (San Francisco), and where we will post information on the 2016 conference as those details are finalized:
UPDATE October 13, 2015: The complete agenda, faculty list, and conference registration pages are live at ALI-CLE’s website. Register now.
Reports from the 2015 San Francisco conference:
Continue Reading 2015 ALI-CLE Eminent Domain And Land Valuation Conference (and 2016)
January 10, 2015: A correction, with edits as noted below.
An astute reader has pointed out that there were actually three cases regarding the Haleakala telescope (two of them remain unresolved), and that we got them mixed up in our post.
The first, resolved by the Hawaii Supreme Court in this opinion, was whether the BLNR should have held a contested case. The court ruled it should have, and voided the permit with BLNR had issued.
The second was the EIS challenge. The ICA concluded that no EIS was required, and the Supreme Court is considering its ruling in that case, after holding oral arguments in December 2014.
The case about which we wrote below is a challenge to the CDUA that was issued by the BLNR after it held the contested case required by Case #1. The ICA upheld the issuance of the permit in an
Continue Reading Star Trek (Or Not), Part III? – HAWSCT To Review Haleakala Telescope Case
Bottom line: low expectations exceeded.
Several months ago, when we first saw the previews for “The Interview,” it didn’t look all that funny, even though we liked James Franco and Seth Rogan’s last joint effort (ha, ha), the entertaining stoner comedy “This is the End.” Mildly disappointed (our general rule is if the producers can’t make a good trailer, the film itself is very unlikely to be good), we placed “The Interview” on our mental “only-if-it-ends-up-streaming-on-Netflix” list.
But that, of course, was before all the will-they-or-won’t they, was-it-the-No-Ko’s-or-wasn’t-it drama surrounding the film’s release, when it became part of the momentary cultural zeitgeist that if you don’t see the film, the terrorists win. Even POTUS got in on the act (“As the president made clear, we are a country that believes in free speech, and the right of artistic expression.”), despite
Continue Reading “The Interview” Reviewed: Not Quite Ready For The John Peter Zenger Honorary Oscar
Get ready. With the end of the year nearly upon us, and our “For The Blog” folder brimming with opinions and items that we just haven’t had time to post, in the next couple of weeks we’ll be putting up a lot of these 2014 cases so we can start the new year afresh.
This means that we won’t be digesting the cases in much detail. Just enough so you get the drift of why we thought they are important for you to know about. Stay tuned.
Continue Reading Programming Note: Get Ready For The 2014 Year-End Opinion Dump
Here’s another takings decision from the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, In Perry Capital LLC v. Lew, No. 13-1025 (Sep. 20, 2014), a hedge fund and others sued the federal government
Perry Capital LLc v. Lew, No. 13-1025 (D. D.C. Sep. 30, 2014)
