A federal judge temporarily halted border wall construction in Texas' Big Bend region in response to one of several lawsuits by landowners and conservationists.
Don't expect the celebrity couple's battle with local planning officials over a privacy fence to turn them into YIMBYs.
Conservatives want local control over housing policy, but they're happy to let the state restrict when local governments can raise taxes.
Modest reforms have helped, but civil forfeiture remains legalized theft by government agencies.
How heavy-handed state regulations led to one farmer suing the state for $3 million in damages
The Eleventh Circuit concludes "there is no COVID exception to the Takings Clause."
Gloria Gaynor had almost finished paying off her house in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania. But she will not see a dime in equity.
In a rare and significant decision, a federal court ruled Brandon Fulton can sue directly under the Takings Clause—without Congress creating a specific remedy.
You have rights to your property, not to control others.
Plus: housing reform is killed in Connecticut, bonus ADUs are gutted in San Diego, and two decades of Supreme Court-enabled eminent domain abuse.
Twenty years after Susette Kelo lost at the Supreme Court, the land where her house once stood is still an empty lot.
The Supreme Court ruled decades ago that burning the flag is protected by the First Amendment, no matter how offensive that act may be.
Two business owners say the city of Perth Amboy is using exceedingly flimsy blight allegations to take, and potentially demolish, their property.
"The unique nature of each human embryo means that an equal division cannot conveniently be made," writes a Virginia judge.
It's far from the first case of terrorism inflation.
The right to a reasonable accommodation has produced some absurd results.
The right to a reasonable accommodation has produced some absurd results.
In a jaw-dropping argument, the Department of Justice claims seizing $50,000 from a small business doesn’t violate property rights because money isn’t property.
The Sixth Circuit finds a city failed to provide adequate process before demolishing a condemned mobile home.
Two modest defenses of Tyler’s choice of law strategy.
The Court’s departures from standard choice of law principles (or, takings doctrine for federal courts gurus).
The Court's approach to the choice of law question (or, federal courts doctrine for property lawyers).
The Tyler case and the choice of law questions it raises.
The California governor is using state of emergency powers to make unsolicited offers to buy people's property in fire-affected areas "for an amount less than the fair market value."
The Nevada Highway Patrol exceeded its legal authority when it seized nearly $90,000 in cash from Stephen Lara in 2023 and then handed the case to the DEA.
Federal prosecutors argued that John Moore and Tanner Mansell stole property when they hauled in a fishing line they mistakenly believed had been set by poachers.
Progressives are trying to fix the errors of the past, but they're ignoring the best solution: More robust property rights.
Two brothers are asking the Supreme Court to stop their town from using eminent domain to steal their land for an empty field.
Plus, a look at Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Tina Smith's plan to resurrect public housing in America.
The Edmondson Community Organization accrued a modest property tax debt. The group paid dearly for that.
After a Michigan couple indicated their intent to open a green cemetery, their local township passed an ordinance to forbid it. A judge found the rule unconstitutional.
Recent footage shows a federal agent attempting to search a citizen’s bag without their consent, despite precedent saying that’s illegal.
The Church of the Rock is suing, arguing that the zoning crackdown in Castle Rock violates the First Amendment.
The Institute for Justice has launched a project to reform land use regulation.
David Knott helps clients retrieve unclaimed property from the government. The state has made it considerably harder for him to do that.
Giving the state control over insurance rates turned pricing into a Byzantine regulatory process.
The Institute for Justice says its data show that a century-old Supreme Court doctrine created a huge exception to the Fourth Amendment.
Floridians spend millions litigating insurance disputes after hurricanes. There's a better way.
A zombie law, thrown out in court, continues to wreak havoc because it’s referenced in a contract.
The people who could benefit from new housing stock aren't on this map—they're exiled to unincorporated areas.
A case stemming from a "Holocaust revisionist's" expulsion from a conference on "Mennonites and the Holocaust."
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