Search : U.S. Supreme Court : Property Law & Real Estate : From 10/01/04 To 07/01/05
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| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law, Property Law & Real Estate |
| Title: | Kelo v. City of New London |
| Date: | 06/23/05 |
| Case Number: | 04-108 |
| Summary: | Defendant-City's proposed disposition of plaintiff's property qualifies as a "public use" within the meaning of the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Procedure, Property Law & Real Estate, Tax Law |
| Title: | Grable & Sons Metal Prod. v. Darue Engineering |
| Date: | 06/13/05 |
| Case Number: | 04-603 |
| Summary: | Federal district courts have jurisdiction to try claims of title to land obtained at a federal tax sale where the national interest in providing a federal forum for federal tax litigation is sufficiently substantial to support the exercise of federal question jurisdiction. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law, Property Law & Real Estate |
| Title: | Alaska v. US |
| Date: | 06/06/05 |
| Case Number: | No. 128 Orig. |
| Summary: | In a dispute over title to submerged lands located in Alaska, summary judgment in favor of the United States is granted where it properly rebutted the presumption that title to the submerged lands beneath Glacier Bay passed to Alaska at statehood. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Constitutional Law, Property Law & Real Estate |
| Title: | Lingle v. Chevron |
| Date: | 05/23/05 |
| Case Number: | 04-163 |
| Summary: | The "substantially advances" formula, announced in Agins v. City of Tiburon, 447 U.S. 255 (1980), is not an appropriate test for determining whether a government regulation effects a Fifth Amendment taking. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Indian Law, Property Law & Real Estate |
| Title: | City of Sherrill v. Oneida Indian Nation of N.Y. |
| Date: | 03/29/05 |
| Case Number: | 03-855 |
| Summary: | Defendant-Indian Tribe's reacquisition of historic reservation land does not prohibit the imposition of property taxes since defendant cannot unilaterally revive its ancient sovereignty over the parcels at issue. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Civil Rights, Communications Law, Government Law, Injury And Tort Law, Property Law & Real Estate |
| Title: | City of Rancho Palos Verdes v. Abrams |
| Date: | 03/22/05 |
| Case Number: | 03-1601 |
| Summary: | An individual may not enforce the limitations on local zoning authority, set forth in section 332(c)(7) of the Communications Act, through an action under 42 U.S.C. section 1983. |
| Court: | U.S. Supreme Court |
| Topic: | Banking Law, Commercial Law, Consumer Protection Law, Property Law & Real Estate |
| Title: | KOONS BUICK PONTIAC GMC, INC. v. NIGH |
| Date: | 11/30/04 |
| Case Number: | 03-377 |
| Summary: | A 1995 amendment to the Truth in Lending Act (TILA), which raises the minimum and maximum recoveries for violations of TILA prescriptions governing closed-end loans secured by real property, does not alter the minimum and maximum recovery amounts for violations involving personal-property loans. |