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inversecondemnation.com
Amici Briefs In SCOTUS Due Process Ripeness Case – The End For Williamson County?
Here are all of the amici briefs in support of the property owners/petitioners in Kurtz v. Verizon New York, Inc., No. 14-439 (cert. petition filed Oct. 14, 2014).That's the case…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Georgia High Court Upholds Use of Private Probation Companies
Steven D. Schwinn, John Marshall Law SchoolThe Georgia Supreme Court yesterday rejected claims by a group of plaintiffs that the state courts' use of private probation companies violated due process.…
The Appellate Strategist
Illinois Supreme Court Agrees to Decide Remedy for Unserved Notices of Violation
By Kirk Jenkins
What happens when the City doesn’t properly serve a notice of building code violations? In the closing days of its September term, the Illinois Supreme Court agreed to decide that issue…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
“Mothers of accused college rapists fight back”
By John Kang
From Aljazeera America:“The phone call. The phone call," sighed Allison Strange. "There’s always that one call that you never expect to get.”On Sept. 6, 2011, the caller ID showed her…
The Appellate Strategist
Illinois Supreme Court Debates Scope of Court Authority Over Academic Investigations
By Kirk Jenkins
During its September term, the Illinois Supreme Court debated the scope of courts’ authority to intervene in academic investigations at the University of Illinois in order to require University officials…
inversecondemnation.com
New Amicus Brief: Overrule Williamson County! (At Least The State Exhaustion Requirement)
Today, on behalf of the National Federation of Independent Business Small Business Legal Center, we filed this amicus brief in Kurtz v. Verizon New York, Inc., No. 14-439 (cert. petition filed…
Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
SCOTUS Summary Reversal on Pleading Standards: Johnson v. City of Shelby
We’ve been watching Johnson v. City of Shelby, a case raising some important questions on pleading standards that the Supreme Court relisted several times. Today the Court issued a per…
PropertyProf Blog
Skibine on Federal Control Over Tribal Lands
Alexander Skibine (Utah) has posted Using the New Equal Protection to Challenge Federal Control Over Tribal Lands on SSRN. Here's the abstract:There are today over 55 million acres of land…
Employment Discrimination Report
Do Accused Harassers Have a Right to Be Heard?
Today, I read an interesting opinion piece in The Boston Globe about how a sexual harassment policy nearly ruined Patrick Witt’s (the former quarterback for Yale University) life. Witt, who…
inversecondemnation.com
Amici Brief Asks: Aren’t Property Rights “Fundamental” Rights?
Remember that 11th Circuit decision we posted earlier, in which the court concluded that riparian rights, although recognized by Florida as property rights, are not "fundamental rights" protected by the…