Real Estate & Property Law

Weekend Round-Up

By Robert Thomas (inversecondemnation.com)

Items of note from around the web:

• Professor Gideon Kanner's thoughts on recent New York Times report on Susette Kelo, "At Long Last, The New York Times Reveals a Secret"

• In "Penny Wise And Pound Foolish," the Connecticut Law Tribune urges the Office of Ombudsman for Property Rights not fall to the budget ax.

• From the Honolulu Advertiser a report that the governor has signed the bill repealing the nine-month old landmark law which required property owners of buildings 50 or more years old to submit "archival quality" photographs before permits were processed.

• Law of the Land blog summarizes Collins v. Historic District Comm'n, a Massachusetts Court of Appeals decision from last December holding that the commission's denial of a permit to build a single-family home was not a regulatory taking because it was not a permanent physical invasion and did not deprive the owner of all economically beneficial use of the land.

Full post as published by inversecondemnation on April 20, 2009 (boomark / email).