Below you will find articles from our legal journals on a variety of pressing legal topics.
This article will focus on how lawyers and appraisers can work together to tackle difficult appraisal problems that don’t lend themselves easily to a simple comparable sales approach or where such an approach requires larger adjustments than are...
It is axiomatic that “you can’t get the value right if you get the highest and best use wrong.”1 There may be no more fundamental concept in the valuation of property under the Fifth Amendment’s just compensation clause than that fair market value...
“Drones are coming. Lots of them. They are fun and useful. But their ability to pry, spy, crash, and drop things poses real risks. Free-for-all drone use threatens air traffic, people and things on the ground, and even national security.” 1 Several...
ALI CLE’s upcoming webcast, Property Rights and Regulatory Takings, is live on July 16, 2024. The 2023-24 Supreme Court term has been one of significance in the world of property rights. Two unanimous cases in particular directly addressed...
PUBLIC USE Detailed Factual Findings on Public Benefit are Required In re Gen. Mun. Auth. of City of Nanticoke involved a private benefit challenge to a proposed taking allegedly for construction of affordable elderly housing.1 In consolidated...
This article is part of the continuing series of interviews between, published in The Practical Lawyer, Rajiv S. Khanna, principal of The Law Offices of Rajiv Khanna, and leading practitioners across the country, designed to provide personal and...
PUBLIC USE UNESCO designation enough to support taking In State ex rel. Ohio History Connection v. Moundbuilders Country Club Co., the Ohio Supreme Court held that the taking of the Country Club’s lease for the property served a public use.1 The...
There are many different types of regulatory takings, each with their own unique rules and body of Supreme Court jurisprudence. Although the Supreme Court has articulated different inquiries based on the type of taking, each of the tests “aims to...
At the beginning of each calendar year, ALI CLE annually presents its premier course, Eminent Domain and Land Valuation Litigation. In January 2022, the conference was held over two and one-half days in Scottsdale, AZ, hosting hundreds of...