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Longview News-Journal
April 1, 2018
Based on preliminary information, Kilgore ISD might have to pay back $675,000 in tax revenues accrued over three years, said Revard Pfeffer, the district's chief financial officer. The district has an annual budget of $30.5 million. “It's going to hurt us a little bit,” he said. “it's not going to devastate us.”.
U.S. News & World Report
March 31, 2018
Up on the Roof: State Supreme Court Looking at House Dispute ... (AP) — The Michigan Supreme Court is looking at real estate in western Michigan. The court ... In August, the state appeals court reversed a local decision and said David and Helen Goyings should have been ordered to remove the home.
Lexology
March 13, 2018
Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court granted a petition for certiorari in the case of Knick v. Township of Scott. In Knick, the Court is being asked to re-examine its 30-year-old doctrine requiring takings claimants to exhaust state court remedies before filing a claim for just compensation stemming from aÃâà...
Los Angeles Times
March 6, 2018
On one side, property owner and Silicon Valley billionaire Vinod Khosla wants Martins Beach, a secluded crescent-shaped stretch of sand and bluffs, to himself. On the other ... Unwilling to back down, Khosla is now appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court over his right to shut out the public. His latestÃâà...
Tribune-Review
March 6, 2018
Should the U.S. Supreme Court make it easier for property owners to file federal lawsuits against governments who commandeer their property? ... A federal judge threw out her takings claim based on the 1985 Supreme Court decision because she didn't pursue a state claim for compensation.
Reason
March 5, 2018
Hunter's Lessee, a famous 1816 decision, one of the main reasons why federal courts have ultimate jurisdiction over federal constitutional issues is "the importance, and even necessity of uniformity of decisions throughout the whole United States, upon all subjects within the purview of the constitution.
CNN
December 31, 1999
Beyond those cases already subject to oral arguments, the justices have been wrangling for three months over how to respond to the Trump administration's request to dissolve a lower court decision that cleared the way for pregnant Central American teenager who entered the US illegally to obtain anÃâà...
Law.com
December 31, 1999
In numerous opinions dating back to the 1970s, the U.S. Supreme Court has recognized that public forums, such as streets and town squares, serve an important democratic function. The court has therefore held that if government property is a public forum, regulations that burden the use of that property forÃâà...
E&E News
December 31, 1999
Supreme Court justices today seemed reluctant to completely upend a decades-old rule for interpreting fractured high court decisions in a case that could have ... The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals based its decision on a 4-1-4 opinion that the Supreme Court issued in 2011 on whether defendants areÃâà...
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