Category: Takings
18 April, 2012 (09:23) | Cambridge, Fresh Pond, Harmon, Housing, Regulation, Rehnquist, Rent control, Rental, Supreme Court, Takings | 1 comment
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.] By: David A. Smith The country falls in love with the rhetoric, and in the end we are stuck with tyrants. – Marcel Jazy, in Under Fire Yesterday’s case-study exploration of the William Rehnquist Supreme Court dissent in Fresh Pond Shopping Center v. Callahan et al. acquainted [...]
17 April, 2012 (10:19) | Cambridge, Fresh Pond, Harmon, Housing, Regulation, Rehnquist, Rent control, Rental, Supreme Court, Takings |
By: David A. Smith I like you people, but you are sentimental shits. You fall in love with the poets; the poets fall in love with the Marxists; the Marxists fall in love with themselves. – Marcel Jazy, in Under Fire While rummaging through the Yee v. Escondido decision in search of understanding [...]
4 April, 2012 (09:37) | Constitution, Due process, Harmon, Law, Litigation, New York City, Regulation, Rent control, Supreme Court, Takings, Theory, US News, Yee v Escondido |
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.] By: David A. Smith Everything that follows is a result of what you see here. Yesterday’s post was at pains to show how the Supreme Court, in Yee v. Escondido, both the decision itself (blue Georgia) and its syllabus (black Georgia), didn’t exculpate all rent control, such as [...]
3 April, 2012 (09:29) | Constitution, Due process, Harmon, Law, Litigation, New York City, Regulation, Rent control, Supreme Court, Takings, Theory, US News, Yee v Escondido |
By:David A. Smith I’m sorry. My responses are limited. You must ask the right questions. For more than a quarter of a century, I’ve been baffled as to why rent control hasn’t been declared Unconstitutional, but it took until just recently, with James Harmon’s lawsuit against New York City, for me to read [...]
4 February, 2011 (15:43) | Eminent domain, Land use, Local issues, Michigan, Real estate taxes, Regulation, Takings, Zoning |
By: David A. Smith In yesterday’s post, we encountered feisty combative Saugatuck, Michigan, which as reported in a December 21 Wall Street Journal, has spent most of the last three years devoting a vast and increasing share of its local budget to defending its abrupt downzoning of billionaire Aubrey McClendon’s property, and so depriving [...]