Author: Luke Wake A couple in New Jersey is turning to their Supreme Court for relief after an appellate decision found that their property had been "taken by inverse condemnation." That legal conclusion flies in the face of established law. … Continue reading
Author: Timothy Sandefur This is unintentionally hilarious: How can we most effectively weaken property rights…? [F]raming property as bundles of rights and forewarning of limitations weakens perceptions of ownership and decreases resistance to subsequent restrictions…. The potential applications of this … Continue reading
Author: Timothy Sandefur I recently spoke to the Federalist Society at Chapman University School of Law (my alma mater) on the subject of Lochner and of constitutional protections for economic liberty in general. I recorded the talk and you can … Continue reading
Author: Joshua Thompson Over at The Volokh Conspiracy, Ilya Somin has an interesting post on the justificaiton(s) for race/ethnic preferences at public universities. He notes how there are two general theories that are held out to justify such preferences: (1) compensatory … Continue reading
Author: Joshua Thompson PLF filed a lawsuit today against a number of California agencies and officials including Governor Schwarzenegger and Attorney General Brown. The lawsuit alleges that the recently enacted Assembly Bill 21 (AB 21), grants preferences on the basis of … Continue reading
Author: Timothy Sandefur Our friend Robert Thomas is liveblogging the oral arguments in New York's important eminent domain case, Goldstein v. New York State Urban Development Corp., over at his blog, inversecondemnation.com. The arguments begin at 2 Eastern, which is … Continue reading
Author: Timothy Sandefur …or is it Pirate State? A report issued last month by Sanjay Varshney and Dennis Tootelian, professors at the Cal State Sacramento College of Business Administration, finds that the state’s miles of red tape cost Californians $493 … Continue reading