Inversecondemnation.com

This blawg "is devoted to recent developments and commentary on regulatory takings, eminent domain, inverse condemnation, property rights, and land use law."

Author: Robert H. Thomas is a director at Damon Key Leong Kupchak Hastert in Honolulu and is managing attorney of the Pacific Legal Foundation Hawaii Center.

Blawg Related Categories: Administrative Law • Real Estate & Property Law • 9th Circuit Court • States • Hawaii • Partner

Recent Posts from Inversecondemnation.com

Nollan/Dolan Challenge to Maui's 50% Housing Exaction Is A Takings Claim Subject To Williamson County
Relying on Williamson County Regional Planning Comm'n v. Hamilton Bank, 473 U.S. 172 (1985), the US District Court for the District of Hawaii today denied a property owner's motion for summary judgment in a case…
Professor Tribe on Wilkie v. Robbins: Death by a Thousand Cuts
I've finally had a chance to read the article posted on SSRN by Professor Laurence Tribe about the Supreme Court's decision in Wilkie v. Robbins, 127 S. Ct. 2588 (2007), "Death by a Thousand Cuts:…
Calling Bill Clinton: the Ninth Circuit Has Your Answer About What The Meaning of "Is" Is
This is only tangentially related to the usual topics of this blog, but given the first sentence in the Ninth Circuit's opinion in Guidiville Band of Pomo Indians v. NGV Gaming, Ltd., No. 05-17066 (June…
Seminar: Land Use Institute - Planning, Regulation, Litigation, Eminent Domain and Compensation (August 13-16)
Get ready for this year's Land Use Institute conference on "Planning, Regulation, Litigation, Eminent Domain, and Compensation," to be held in Boston on August 13-16, 2008. I can't attend this year, but have in the…
Ninth Circuit Rejects Public Use Challenge to Taking for Power Grid
In United States v. 14.02 Acres of Land, More or Less in Fresno County, No. 05-17347 (Jun. 24, 2008), the Ninth Circuit upheld a taking by the federal government for the Western Area Power Administration…
Reply Brief in Ninth Circuit Maui Vacation Rental Appeal
Today we filed the Reply Brief (925kb pdf) in Maui Vacation Rental Association, Inc. v. County of Maui, No. 08-15251, the Ninth Circuit appeal from the Hawaii district court's dismissal of MVRA's complaint which sought…
Note to Self: Avoid June 23 at the Supreme Court
If my office ever takes another Fifth Amendment case up to the U.S. Supreme Court (my Damon Key colleagues Charlie Bocken and Diane Hastert argued and won Kaiser Aetna v. United States, 444 U.S. 164…
Cert Denied in Three Cases
The US Supreme Court today denied review to three cases we've been following: Goldstein v. Pataki, No. 07-1247 (petition for cert. filed Mar. 31, 2008) (pleading pretext post-Kelo) - Justice Alito would have granted the…
Honolulu Star-Bulletin Features Damon Key Law Blogs
In "Blogs are not just for venting anymore," Erika Engle's "TheBuzz" column features four Damon Key attorneys who blog about the law: Mark Murakami, Robert Harris, Tred Eyerly, and me. Our firm is pretty "bloggish,"…
Court of Federal Claims Awards Compensation for Taking of Vested Water Rights
The speed of information on the internet sure is fast. I was preparing a post summarizing the recent Court of Federal Claims decision in Estate of Hage v. United States, No. 91-1470L (May 6, 2008),…