Guess where we stopped for coffee this morning?
(A reminder: this case has nothing to do
with the convenience store.)
Does the government have the unfettered ability to demand “the goodies” (as one municipality’s chief land use planner famously called them in the 1980s), simply because a property owner needs the government’s approval to…

Here’s what folks are saying about yesterday’s unanimous U.S. Supreme Court decision in Sheetz v. County of El Dorado, where the Court held that impact fees and exactions imposed by legislative action are not categorically immune from the close nexus and rough proportionality requirements already applicable to ad hoc/administratively-imposed exactions under Nollan, Dolan, and…

This just in: the U.S. Supreme Court has issued a unanimous opinion in Sheetz v. County of El Dorado, a case we’ve been following (not only because it is one of ours).
The Court, as predicted, held that an exaction (in this case a traffic impact fee) isn’t immune from the Nollan/Dolan nexus and…

This one takes a bit of sifting through, but if you do so, you will eventually savor the arguments. Try and follow this thread.
In 2014, pistachio growers with what seemed to be established rights to pump groundwater for irrigation of their trees and who never had to pay fees or were subject to other…

Hugo Grotius, aka Hugo de Groot,
born this day 441 years ago, April 10, 1583.
Author of the treatise “De Jure Belli et Pacis” (1625) — perhaps fittingly books about war and peace — which first used the phrase “eminent domain” to describe the sovereign power to forcibly acquire private…