In Lichoulas v. City of Lowell , No. 08-1485, 08-2023 (1st Cir., Jan. 30, 2009), the U.S. Court of Appeals declined to rule on a property owner's objection to a taking for redevelopment, holding that public use challenges belong in state court. Interestingly, the court cited Williamson County Re...

Posted By DoNotTreadOnMe Beijing, China — Sources at the United States Embassy in Beijing China have just CONFIRMED to me that the United States of America has tendered to China a written agreement which grants to the People’s Republic of China, an option to exercise Eminent Domain withi...

by: Robert McIntosh Because it looks like our wonderful new administration is granting the Chinese eminent domain as collateral for US debts. Yea you read that right. That means when we can no longer pay for all this massive spending the Chinese can call in the loans and take our land. The thought t...

Some interesting items have crossed my desk on Friday and Saturday: From the Grand Theft: Property blog, Jim Mattson posts his thoughts about Monks v. City of Rancho Palos Verdes , 67 Cal. App. 4th 263 (Cal. Ct. App. 2008), the case in which a California Court of Appeals held that a municipality'...

Here are the links to the cases that I spoke about in my session in today's seminar "Supreme Court, Regulatory Takings and Eminent Domain Update. Not all of the cases we discussed today are included below, so if you would like a link or more information about a case that we discussed but th...

From the Dump Bachmann archives: by Karl Bremer (Originally published in the 6/29/2006 Stillwater Gazette) Why was Michele Bachmann, an outspoken opponent of the use of eminent domain, honored June 26 with a fund-raiser by the owner of a company that is threatening to use eminent domain to take Minn...

In a brief memorandum opinion , the New York Court of Appeals (the state's highest court) today affirmed the Appellate Division's decision in Aspen Creek Estates, Ltd. v. Town of Brookhaven, a case challenging a municipality's ability to take property for farmland preservation. The court...

Jeff Benedict’s new book, Little Pink House: A True Story of Defiance and Courage, comes with an additional subtitle, “One woman’s historic battle against eminent domain.� So we know that the book will focus on the remarkable and enduring effort by Susette Kelo, a woman who stood up when red...

Thanks to Professor Patty Salkin's Law of the Land blog for letting us know that on January 14, 2009, the New York Court of Appeals (that state's highest court) will be hearing oral arguments in Aspen Creek Estates, Ltd. v. Town of Brookhaven, a case challenging a municipality's ability ...

Following up on this post, where we pointed out several errors in a headline and subheadline in a Honolulu Star-Bulletin story on the Hawaii Supreme Court's landmark eminent domain decision in County of Hawaii v. C & J Coupe Family Limited Partnership , No. 28882 (Dec. 24, 2008), the Star-Bu...