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Conservation Easements
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Land Use Prof Blog
Conservation Land = Tax Exempt?
When it comes to conservation easements, there are a lot of tax issues thatarise. Yesterday, I referred to charitable tax deductions associated withdonated conservation easements. Many conservation easements also result…
PropertyProf Blog
Perpetual Conservation Easements Conference
By propertyprof
On February 15,the University of Utah College of Law is hosting a conference entitled, Perpetual Conservation Easements: What Have We Learned and Where Should We Go From Here?. Those unable…
Nonprofit Law Prof Blog
Perpetual Conservation Easements Conference
The Wallace Stegner Center at the University of Utah SJ Quinney College of Law is hosting the following conference. Those unable to travel to Salt Lake City can watch the…
Land Use Prof Blog
What is the Value of a Historic Facade Easement?
Forthose of you interested in conservation easements (particularly historic façadeeasements), you may have been following the Scheidelman saga.The next installment is now out. In Scheidelmanv. Comissioner, T.C. Memo. 2010-151 [Scheidelman…
Nonprofit Law Prof Blog
Pesky v. United States – Government Asserts Civil Fraud Penalty in Conservation Easement Donation Case
In Pesky v. United States, 2013 WL 97752 (D. Idaho, Jan. 7, 2013), the United States District Court for the District of Idaho held that the United States adequately pled…
Nonprofit Law Prof Blog
McLaughlin: Extinguishing and Amending Tax-Deductible Conservation Easements
Our contributing editor, Nancy A. McLaughlin (Utah), has posted Extinguishing and Amending Tax-Deductible Conservation Easements: Protecting the Federal Investment after Carpenter, Simmons, and Kaufman (Florida Tax Review, 2012) to SSRN. Here is…
Land Use Law Blog
Court Holds That A Hunting Ban Is Unquestionably A Legitimate Aspect And Aim Of A Conservation Easement Granted To The Department Of Fish And Game
By Glen C. Hansen In Wooster v. Department of Fish & Game (2012) 211Cal.App.4th 1020, 2012 Cal. App. LEXIS 1250, the Court of Appeal for the Third Appellate District, held…
Nonprofit Law Prof Blog
Schwing: Why it is Wrong to Promote Amendment and Termination of Perpetual Conservation Easements
Ann Taylor Schwing has posted Perpetuity is Forever, Almost Always: Why it is Wrong to Promote Amendment and Termination of Perpetual Conservation Easements, 37 Harv. Env. L. Rev. (forthcoming), on…
Environmental and Climate
Property Owner Unsuccessfully Hunts for a Way to Void a Conservation Easement
On December 11, 2012, the Third District Court of Appeal changed its decision in Wooster v. Department of Fish and Game (Nov. 26, 2012) 2012 Cal. App. LEXIS 1250 from…
PropertyProf Blog
Owley on Historic Preservation Easements
By propertyprof
Jessica Owley (Buffalo) has posted The Future of the Past: Historic Preservation Easements (Zoning Law & Practice Report) on SSRN. Here's the abstract:This brief article summarizes recent case law related…