Real Estate & Property Law

10/21/2010 Webconference: Eminent Domain After Kelo

By Robert Thomas (inversecondemnation.com)

On Thursday, October 21, 2010, from Noon to 1:00 p.m. EDT, please tune in for the free web conference "The Whacky and Wonderful World of Eminent Domain After Kelo." I'm not sure I can live up to making eminent domain "whacky and wonderful," but I will be speaking on what the Court in Kelo really decided, and how courts in the intervening five years have viewed the decision. We will be looking at cases from New York, D.C., Hawaii, and Pennsylvania, among others.

Joining me on the panel will be Andrew W. Schwartz, from San Francisco's Shute, Mihaly & Weinberger. The session will be moderated by John Clapp, Ph.D. of the UConn Center for Real Estate, and Michele Maresca, a land use attorney at Robinson and Cole in Hartford. Here's the description of the program:

Government agencies have long used the power of eminent domain to acquire private property for transfer to developers for redevelopment of blighted areas. The Supreme Court's 2005 decision in Kelo v. City of New London has been viewed by property rights advocates as the virtual gutting of the Fifth Amendment's limits on the use of eminent domain for transfer to private developers, while advocates of governmental and redevelopment authority power have argued that the decision was simply the continuation of long-standing takings doctrine. Which is it? With the perspective that five years provides, this webinar will look at what the Court decided and what it didn't and recent cases where eminent domain was used for public/private partnerships.

This seminar is part of the 2010 Real Estate Teleconference Series sponsored by the Counselors of Real Estate, the University of Connecticut, and Robinson & Cole.

Did I mention that the registration fee is $0, and that all you need do is register as instructed on this form? Hope you can join us.

Full post as published by inversecondemnation on October 12, 2010 (boomark / email).