The takings clause with Robert McNamara

The takings clause with Robert McNamara

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In this video, Nate Mowry interviews Robert McNamara of the Institute for Justice, one of the lawyers representing a group of landowners from Houston who sued Texas for flooding their land with a highway project. 

 

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Justices rule Minnesota county violated takings clause

Justices rule Minnesota county violated takings clause

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In 2016, a Minnesota county sold 94-year-old Geraldine Tyler’s condo at auction after she failed to pay her property taxes for several years. The sale yielded $ 40,000; Hennepin County kept not only the $ 15,000 in taxes, penalties, and costs that Tyler owed it, but also the $ 25,000 that was left over. The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the county’s actions violated the Fifth Amendment’s takings clause, which bars the government from taking private property for … Read the rest

Relist-palooza: Religious exercise, the False Claims Act, takings clause, RICO, bank secrecy, and more

Relist-palooza: Religious exercise, the False Claims Act, takings clause, RICO, bank secrecy, and more

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The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. A short explanation of relists is available here.

 This Friday’s conference represents a significant date in the Supreme Court’s schedule: Based on the schedule prescribed by the court’s rules, it is the last conference at which a cert petition can be granted and the case heard during the court’s April sitting. Because it appears that sitting is mostly empty at … Read the rest