Real Estate & Property Law

Land Use Law Round-up

By Robert Thomas (inversecondemnation.com)

Some interesting items from around the land use law blogosphere:

• A write up of an Eleventh Circuit (which covers Alabama, Florida, and Georgia) decision striking down as unconstitutional a municipal ordinance that prohibited national chain retail stores because it violates the dormant Commerce Clause.  This could be a very important case on the "big box" and "formula retail" issues. More from Georgia Zoning Blog.

• Professor Gideon Kanner has posted a series with interesting background and insight on the major eminent domain cases, including (so far) Midkiff, Poletown, and Yonkers Community Redevelopment.  Follow along at Gideon's Trumpet.

• Charley Foster has a series of posts about a reporter's privilege to trespass on private property, and how it may relate to an ongoing controversy about the State of Hawaii Historical Preservation Division and native Hawaiian remains on a construction site on Kauai.  Start at Planet Kauai.

Full post as published by inversecondemnation on September 16, 2008 (boomark / email).