It isn't often my day job doing land use and condemnation litigation overlaps with my maritime interests, but the Ninth Circuit just published a decision that comes awfully close.
The case is Samson v. City of Bainbridge Island and the opinion can be found here.
The facts: the City of Bainbridge Island issued a
Thanks to SCOTUSBLOG for cluing us into a new cert petition.
If you do not love civil procedure, then read no further.
Last year, the Ninth Circuit held that a plaintiff could appeal from a judgment based on a "dismissal without prejudice." The underlying case is a securities action. The defendant prevailed on a motion to
"Oh, I'm not sure we give our military discount to the Coast Guard."
"What kind of uniform is that? United Airlines? Greyhound?"
Every Coast Guardsman has endured the brunt of some uninformed citizens, so we thought it about time to clarify for our readership what the Coast Guard is and is not.
The Coast Guard
Then-Secretary of Transportation Andrew Card presenting a commission to a certain blawger.
Yesterday, I was honored to chair a program in Honolulu covering eminent domain, land use and Honolulu’s rail project.
Topics covered included public use, Kelo, burial law, bid protests, transit oriented development, valuation in condemnations and ethics for condemnation practitioners.
Co-presenters included Hawaii law bloggers, Robert H. Thomas, Anna H. Oshiro and Jesse Souki.
New maritime personal injury case from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. It is Manderson v. Chet Morrison Contr, Inc., 2012 U.S. App. LEXIS 18 and can be found here.
At first blush, this seems like a straightforward case involving Jones Act and Maintenance and Cure claims. But it sets out the law