California Assembly Bill 823 will be heard next Monday in the state Assembly’s Natural Resources Committee. Since the bill will impose unconstitutional exactions on many if not all farmland development projects in California, PLF sent this letter to the author … Continue reading
Last month, Alabama decided to once again allow the government to take land from one private property owner to give it to politically influential corporations and other private parties. As readers know, these collusive schemes between powerful corporations and governments … Continue reading
PLF colleague Jennifer Fry recently posted on the frustrations of a Sacramento family after their home burned down. FEMA’s de-certification of the levees protecting their neighborhood resulted in a building moratorium that prevents the Taylors from rebuilding their fire-destroyed home, even though they … Continue reading
Property Rights — Pretextual eminent domain Somebody at the Supreme Court is interested in what’s been going on in Guam — or at least the blatant pretextual taking of our client’s property in Ilagen v. Ungacta, a case described in … Continue reading
The K Street Mall in Sacramento, and particularly its taxpayer-subsidized Dive Bar and Cosmopolitan Cabaret, has long been a poster-child for the injustice and unwisdom of government-run redevelopment schemes. These schemes give bureaucrats power to take away money that citizens would have … Continue reading
Columnist Dan Walters has been following recent bills introduced into the state legislature to resurrect redevelopment in California. As you may recall, late last year the California Supreme Court upheld AB26, the bill which eliminated California’s redevelopment agencies. This marked … Continue reading
I’ll be talking with Armstrong & Getty at 8 this morning about the efforts by California local governments to use eminent domain to seize “underwater” mortgages. You can listen online here. Update: You can listen to the podcast recording here. … Continue reading