In a case a month ago involving the Obama Presidential Center, she rejected citizen activists' very expansive claims of a taking of property under the Fifth Amendment. >>read more

More local land-use cases may land in federal court -- and local planners still aren't sure what constitutes a taking. >>read more

How the Supreme Court nominee interprets the Endangered Species Act is likely to have a profound impact on land-use patterns in California. >>read more

Case from Wisconsin is based on quirky facts -- just like practically every takings case the Supreme Court deals with. >>read more

The Supreme Court nominee takes a narrow view of administrative agencies' power -- but is likely to apply that view in a nonpartisan way. >>read more

 President Obama has now nominated two women to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court – and the addition of Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan -- nominated Monday and almost sure to be confirmed -- will definitely give the court a new tilt. But the tilt isn't about gender. It's about geography. In Sotomayor and Kagan, Obama has selected two women who have lived their whole lives in big cities – they're both from New York, though from very different backgrounds (Sotomayor's from the Bronx).