The Supreme Court ruled that home equity theft qualifies as a taking, and that state law is not the sole source for the definition of property rights. The ruling is imprecise on some points, but still sets an important and valuable precedent.
Ellen Finnerty wanted to make and sell honey. The town of Ottawa, Kansas, says that's illegal.
In a federal lawsuit on behalf of legal U.S. residents from China, the ACLU argues that "Florida's New Alien Land Law" is unconstitutional.
Progressives like to argue that rent control policies that exempt new construction don't impact the construction of new housing.
The Texas Senate has passed two bills legalizing building homes on smaller lots and accessory dwelling units across the state.
Two leading experts explain how legalizing organ markets can fix the problem, thereby saving tens of thousands of lives each year, and greatly reducing the suffering of patients on the kidney waiting list.
The Department of Justice is now intervening on behalf of the Orange County, California, group's right to distribute food at its resource center in Santa Ana.
The argument has some appeal, especially to libertarians. But it's actually a rationale for sweeping statist constraints on liberty.
The decision is at odds with Supreme Court precedent, and endangers the constitutional rights of millions of people. This brief urging the court to reverse it was filed by the Cato Institute and myself.
A new development project may finally build new housing on on property whose condemnation for purposes of "economic development" was upheld by the Supreme Court in a controversial 2005 decision.
Its existence was revealed when Justice John Paul Stevens' papers were made public earlier this week.
There are several interesting revelations, including an unpublished dissent by Justice Antonin Scalia.
The author of one of the Supreme Court's most widely hated rulings left us extensive files on the case, which have just been made public. They could help shed light on key unanswered questions about.
"If there is freedom, private property, rule of law, then Latin Americans thrive," says the social media star.
Unliking zoning, private communities respect property rights, and do not create major barriers to people seeking to "vote with their feet" for a better community.
Montana's sweeping new zoning reform is both good in itself and a potential model for cross-ideological cooperation on this issue elsewhere.
A new Pew Charitable Trusts study examining jurisdictions with that reformed zoning finds far lower rent increases there than elsewhere.
The decision may even be unanimous.
Takings cases often divide opinion along left-right ideological lines. The home equity theft case argued before the Supreme Court today is a rare exception.
Geraldine Tyler's case is not unique; home equity theft is legal in Minnesota and 11 other states.
The Court will determine whether the Due Process Clause prevents the government from using asset forfeiture to seize property and hold it for many months without a timely hearing.
Some conservatives are in the awkward position of resisting both policies that reduce the role of race in allocating kidneys for transplant, and those that increase it. The better way to alleviate kidney shortages is to legalize organ markets.
My presentation covers an important takings case currently before the Supreme Court.
Harvard economist Edward Glaeser describes a dangerous trend. But a cross-ideological tide of reform might help reverse it.
Developer Westside wanted to turn its 155-acre property into 3,200 homes and a public park.
Arlington's successful passage of a modest missing middle housing reform bill after an intense debate raises the question of whether YIMBY politics can practically fix the problems it sets out to address.
The state promised Ford nearly $900 million in incentives, including new and upgraded roads. But it chose to run that new road through a number of black-owned farms.
A controversial "good cause" eviction bill that would cap rent increases could be included in a budget bill that must pass by April 1.
Excessive government interference in the market hurts consumers and thwarts policy goals. It also gets in the way of the government itself.
An unusual coalition of liberal and conservative justices rules that property owners have right to use Quiet Title Act to contest federal intrusion on their land, even in some cases where the statute of limitations may have passed.
The Biden administration is the third administration in a row to fail to issue Clean Water Act regulations that pass judicial scrutiny.
In Caroline, New York, officials are trying to impose the city's first zoning code. These residents won't have it.
The badly flawed ruling defies the Supreme Court's landmark 2019 decision forbidding such Catch-22 traps.
This April 11 event is free and open to the public.
Officials used the crisis to impose policies they already supported but couldn't get through the normal legislative process, like bans on evictions.
The new policy isn't ideal. But it's an important deregulatory step in the right direction, making it easier to build new housing in response to growing demand.
People panicked in the 1980s that Japan's economic largesse posed a grave threat to American interests. Then the market reined it in.
The allegedly smart balance "anti-rent gouging" policies have struck between supply and stability is already unraveling.
It argues for increasing the number of cases in the Supreme Court's "Hall of Shame" and proposes three worthy additions.
Under the Kelo v. New London Supreme Court decision, a state can take private land to give to a private developer for almost any reason it wants.
By an amazing coincidence, a current property dispute is occurring at the site of a storied property law case.
Vince Cantu says the eminent domain threats to seize his property are "stupidly ironic" and "completely un-Texan."
The nation's control over the air above our heads is less settled than some may think.
Fairytale Farm Animal Sanctuary's work caring for abandoned and disabled animals is imperiled by a demand from the Winston-Salem city government that the nonprofit stop hosting on-site fundraisers and volunteer events.
The 2nd Circuit reasoned that the government hasn't necessarily taken a landlord's property when it forces him or her to operate at a loss while renting to a tenant he or she never agreed to host.
Gov. Greg Abbott has already announced that he’d sign the bill if passed.
The video is part of the Federalist Society's series on important Supreme Court decisions.
"I think, in principle, it's ridiculous to have to deal with this eminent domain bullshit on the grounds of the Alamo," says owner Vince Cantu.
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