In a story that hits close to home, Geneseo State University student Arman Partamian was found dead last Sunday morning in an off-campus house, hours after apparently drinking a significant amount of alcohol the day before. Why is this personal? Partamian was enrolled at my college alma mater and wa...

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'...

On February 20, a bill (HB 1368) was introduced in the Maryland House of Delegates that would further restrict waterfront property owners from protecting their land from erosion and even prohibit them from building piers extending into the state's glorious waterways. A choice snippet...

While I was off air yesterday, I was sent loads of links to so much good reading that I was in no position to post. So I figured I’d take a ramble through it all this morning. How bad is the world’s economic crisis?  Take it from George Soros, who while never entirely disinterested is alway...

A friend just forwarded an NRA-ILA "alert" to me to let me know that two allegedly pro-gun bills will be heard tomorrow in the Maryland House Judiciary Committee. One of the bills is HB 470, which would repeal the requirement of Maryland's secretary of state police to find a "good...

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...

It is a rallying call for many around the world. People of all ages, races, creeds, and economic backgrounds have all joined together and marched on its behalf, sat in on its behalf, fasted and feasted on its behalf. Many have devoted, dedicated or consecrated their lives to it. Some have lost their...

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...

There were few surprises in yesterday’s announcement on National’s proposed changes to the Resource Management Act, since most were telegraphed back before the election – and the RMA has been so bad for so long that so many are now so pathetically grateful at any change that even the relativel...

I know what you're thinking. For all the effed up shit that comes out of my head and ends up as a scribble on this blog, I didn't just go and type that headline. Well, folks, I did. As I was clicking through the links of Brutus's last post, the very last one took me to this p...