Atlantic Yards, Inch by Inch
Here's a very telling timeline on the Atlantic Yards project in New York.
View ArticleConservative Leadership on Eminent Domain Reform?
by Timothy SandefurMaggie Neff of the Jackson (Miss.) Free Press has an excellent comment on the decision by Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour to veto that state's eminent domain reform bill. She...
View ArticleDeclaring Independence
by Timothy SandefurI'll be on Ed Brayton's radio show Declaring Independencetoday, to discuss eminent domain and other constitutional issues.
View ArticleApril 15 Anti-Tax Rallies
Our friends at the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association are sponsoring a tea party rally here in Sacramento April 15. sponspored by our friends at the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association. If you're in...
View ArticleMontana Considers Regulatory Takings Compensation
The Montana legislature is considering a bill, SB402, which would require the government to compensate property owners when legislation makes their property valueless--in addition to when it actually...
View ArticleBaltimore to Abuse Eminent Domain to Keep Horse Race
by Timothy SandefurIt's happened before: government using eminent domain to keep sports franchises from leaving town. Decades ago the city of Oakland, California, condemned the Oakland Raiders so that...
View ArticleBegging for Billionaires world premiere
The new documentary Begging for Billionairesis going to premeire at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival on May 2. It's an excellent film focusing on the real meaning and impact of...
View ArticleExtortion Through Building Permits
The Pacific Legal Foundation's Lauren Wiggins and the Cato Institute's Ilya Shaprio have coauthored an article in the Washington Examiner about a Seattle-area case in which a couple who asked for a...
View ArticleConference on Eminent Domain Abuse in California
by Timothy SandefurI'll be the lunchtime speaker at Saturday's conference on redevelopment abuse in California, sponsored by Municipal Officials for Redevelopment Reform. More information here.
View ArticlePacific Legal Foundation Responds to Fifth Circuit Judge's Critique of PLF's...
The Pacific Legal Foundation issued the following comment today regarding Judge Weiner's dissenting opinion in Severance v. Patterson, which was decided yesterday by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals....
View ArticleMore on The Severance Case
Thanks to The Volokh Conspiracy and Reason for covering PLF's recent victory in the Severance case.
View ArticleWSJ on Blight and Begging for Billionaires
The Wall Street Journal has an article here on the problematic "blight" loopholes in many so-called eminent domain "reform" bills. It also carries a clip from Begging for Billionaires, the new...
View ArticleCourt Thows Out Another Attempt To Silence Critics of Eminent Domain
by Timothy SandefurYou're familiar with the frivolous lawsuit filed by Texas developer H. Walker Royall against Carla Main, the author of the excellent book Bulldozed. (The book chronicles an egregious...
View ArticleCity Forces Property Owner to Give Up Right to Vote: Ninth Circuit Argument
by Timothy SandefurTomorrow I will be arguing the case of Griswold v. City of Carlsbad in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Pasadena, California. This is an astonishing case in which city officials...
View ArticleMore on the Carlsbad Voting Rights Case
by Timothy SandefurI spoke to Armstrong and Getty on their Northern California radio show this morning about the case of Griswold v. City of Carlsbad. That's the case in which my clients were forced to...
View ArticleCato podcast on Griswold v. Carlsbad
by Timothy SandefurThe Cato Institute's daily podcast today features my discussion of the Griswold v. Carlsbad case. That's the case I argued in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals last week, and you...
View ArticleBegging for Billionaires in Texas
by Timothy SandefurThe outstanding documentary on eminent domain abuse, Begging for Billionaires, will be presented at the Texandance International Film Festival in New Braunfels, Texas, June 5-7....
View ArticleBuilding-Permit Extortion
The Orange County Register had an editorial yesterday about the Carlsbad case. Excerpt:This is one of the most outrageous things we've seen: a demand by the city that an owner permanently cede his...
View ArticleThe Problem with Land Use Controls
by Timothy SandefurI was up in the Lake Tahoe area this weekend and ran across a flyer for a property for sale. This little cabin is near Fallen Leaf Lake, which is a smaller lake at the bottom of a...
View ArticlePLF's new weblog
If you haven't already seen it, come on by and check out the Pacific Legal Foundation's new Liberty Blog.PLF on Eminent Domain will be merging with PLF Liberty Blog, where we'll cover not only eminent...
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