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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., and have encountered the old fashioned — if no longer underwhelming — residence of the country’s 5th president. Located within the Blue Ridge, the plantation known as Highland, in which Monroe lived from 1799 to 1823, has stood in […]

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 nation 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 ought to in large part stay out of belongings rights issues. Justice Scalia did a good deal to trade that. During his thirty years […]

A self-described Michigan “soccer mom” who had “every belonging” taken from her circle of relatives in a 2014 drug raid has been cleared of all criminal costs, 19 months after heavily armed drug challenge force members ransacked her home and her business. however, in lots of ways, her ordeal is the simplest starting. Annette Shattuck […]

Are you an owner of a house who desires to tap into the spring house buying season? Or perhaps you have been a seller who benefited from the upward push in home income last year. If so, you can have realized or will quickly experience an enormous financial advantage. Domestic prices rose 6 percent last […]

My husband and I helped our only daughter purchase a house within the town in which she did her graduate studies return in 2003. We made the down charge and she or he assured the mortgage payments. Even as she became at school, she rented out rooms to other students. We helped her pay the […]

The nation of Nevada filed an amicus brief I coauthored on behalf of Nevada itself and 8 other nation governments in Murr v. Wisconsin, a main asset rights case presently before the ideal court. The case addresses a critical question about whilst belongings owners are entitled to compensation under the Takings Clause of the 5th […]