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.
The Colorado River Indian Tribes have just won a victory—but there are a lot more controls that need to be lifted.
Warren and fellow progressive Democrats have asked President Joe Biden to use the FTC, HUD, or maybe the FHFA to impose nationwide rent control.
Minnesota law allowed Hennepin County to seize a $40,000 home owned by a 93-year-old widow to pay off a $15,000 tax debt.
Montreal's heritage laws could prevent the financially troubled St. John the Evangelist church from converting its little-used parish hall into a much-needed, revenue-generating asset.
The governor would let developers route around local zoning codes and get housing projects approved directly by state officials.
If SCOTUS finds in favor of a small-town Idaho couple in Sackett v. EPA, it could end the federal government's jurisdiction over millions of acres of land.
Economist Bryan Caplan explains how cutting back on zoning and other restrictions could create millions of new jobs for workers - on top of other beneficial effects.
Zion’s attempts to push out unwanted renters collides with Fourth Amendment protections.
The EPA and Army Corps have finalized a revised definition of "waters of the United States," which defines the scope of federal regulatory jurisdiction under the Clean Water Act.
In this case, it enables the state to declare the area around Penn Station in New York City "blighted" and thereby authorize the use of eminent domain to take property for transfer to private interests.
The overall homeless population stayed basically flat from 2020 to 2022. But the number of people sleeping on the streets increased 3.4 percent.
Property owners are required to get permission from the city, the NFL, and/or the private Arizona Super Bowl Host Committee before displaying temporary advertisements and signs.
The move is a step in the right direction. It also highlights how the issue cuts across ideological lines.
A Post-Script to the Balkinization symposium on Andrew Koppelman's Burning Down the House.
S.B. 4 would let religious institutions and nonprofit colleges skip the typical environmental review and red tape when building low-income housing on their property.
Florida's Department of Economic Opportunity is suing the city of Gainesville to block its legalization of small "missing middle" apartment buildings in single-family neighborhoods.
How a Prohibition-era legal precedent allows warrantless surveillance on private property.
Private property was the solution to their failed experiment. But people keep repeating the Pilgrims' mistakes.
Nashville is the latest city to eliminate minimum parking requirements while simultaneously capping how much parking developers are now allowed to build.
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