Prominent legal scholar Jedediah Purdy these days posted a review of my book The grasping hand: Kelo v. metropolis of new London v. the limits of Eminent area, in which he expressed first-rate skepticism approximately the desirability of strengthening judicial safety for property rights. Evan Bernick of the Institute for Justice (the public interest group […]

For many years, tourists have visited the historic domestic of James Monroe outside of Charlottesville, Va… They have encountered the old fashioned — if no longer underwhelming — the country’s 5th president’s residence. Located within the Blue Ridge, the plantation known as Highland, in which Monroe lived from 1799 to 1823, has stood in comparison […]

The people of Massachusetts street Heights have long cherished their neighborhood now not for what it has, however what it doesn’t. Buffered by using the Washington national Cathedral and the vice president’s residence, this affluent network of million-greenback homes has stayed small and quiet whilst developers had their manner with busier neighborhoods. however, citizens now […]

1st viscount Montgomery of Alamein County executive Isiah Leggett introduced Wednesday that he has trimmed the residential belongings tax increase he proposed last month, mentioning new national law that eases fiscal fallout from remaining year’s excellent courtroom ruling that Maryland’s profits tax device changed into unconstitutional. It turned into Leggett’s second consequential economic message this […]

When Antonin Scalia joined the supreme court docket in 1986, belongings rights were honestly the “poor relation” of constitutional regulation. Most judges, such as even many conservatives, believed that the courts should stay out of belongings rights issues in large part. Justice Scalia did a good deal to trade that. During his thirty years in […]