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Talk amongst yourselves. We’ve had our say, so in this post — the sixth and final post in a series of deeper dives about June’s U.S. Supreme Court opinion in Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid , No. 20-107 (June 23, 2021) — we’re linking to what others are saying about the case. Here are all of the posts in our Cedar Point series: Part I: SCOTUS’s Strawberry Letter 23 To Property Rights Part II: Common …

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In this post — the fifth and penultimate post in a series of deeper dives that we’re posting about June’s U.S. Supreme Court opinion in Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid, No. 20-107 (June 23, 2021) — we’ll be trying to take some educated guesses about what the decision means for the future. Part I: SCOTUS’s Strawberry Letter 23 To Property Rights Part II: Common Sense (Keep Out) And Common Law (The Right To Exclude)…

Here’s one we’re now following, thanks to a heads-up from a northern colleague. The Supreme Court of Canada has granted leave to appeal in a case involving what Canadian law calls “de facto expropriation” (what we’d call “regulatory takings”). Before you review the Application for Leave to Appeal by the property owner, and the responsive memorandum for the government, recall that even though Canada’s approach to “takings” is not a constitutional question, but nonetheless like…

The State of New York needed a strip of the owner’s property for a “greenway” for walkers and bikers. The State and the owner agreed that if the owner believed that the advance payment of $300k was not enough, it could ask the Court of Claims for more. But they also agreed that if that court concluded the amount for the taking was less than advance payment, the owner would owe the State the difference,…

We’re not going to pretend that we can actually read what the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico’s opinion in Administración de Terrenos de Puerto Rico v. Ponce Bayland Enterprises, Inc., No. CC-2019-212 (June 29, 2021) says. It’s in Spanish and we don’t know Spanish. Wish we did, truly. But hey, that’s what Google Translate is for, right? And if that service can be believed, here’s what the summary of the case roughs out to:…