Here’s one from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit joining the growing number of cases holding that government cannot satisfy due process with gestures that look like notice, but aren’t reasonably calculated to actually notify anyone. In
“This was not written for chiefs!” On the day we celebrate Constitution Day (or should we say Khaaaaan-stitution Day?) we have to admit that pretty much nothing beats One Named Kirk’s reading of the Preamble.
Worth a read: our colleague Sam Spiegelman’s latest piece that, as the title indicates, offers a theory to return Euclid and zoning laws to their harm-prevention roots, or abandon Euclid entirely. In “‘One Hundred Years of Solicitude’: Fixing the Nanny
The question before the North Carolina Court of Appeals in Dep’t of Transportation v. Rite Touch Investments is whether the state constitution’s Law of the Land Clause, N.C. Const. art. I, § 19, permits a property owner who proves the
In Debbane v. City and County of San Francisco, No. A172067 (Cal. Ct. App. Sep. 11, 2026), the California Court of Appeal upheld the invalidation of San Francisco’s Proposition M, which the voters enacted “to ‘tax’ owners of certain residential
Here’s the latest in an issue we’ve been on for a long time: whether government actions taken under the police power are categorically exempt from providing just compensation when those activities take or damage private property. In Blue 42 Organics,
Check out the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit’s opinion in Ramirez v. City of Texas City, No. 25-40475 (Sep. 3, 2026), in which the court concluded that a property owner raising a procedural due process claim properly
A couple of weeks ago, we (along with nationally renown zoning law expert lawprof Michael Wolf), offered our thoughts on “Euclid at 100,” the most most (in?)famous zoning case, now coming up on its 100th anniversary. The session was recorded
Spots are filling up, so if you are even thinking about it, here’s the complete agenda for the 2026 Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference, October 14-16, 2026, in London.
The latest naming kerfuffle, in which the established name of that body of water separating Toronto from upstate New York has been summarily changed to Lake America (at least on this side of the border) got us to thinking back
