The Dodgers are into the 7th game of the world series, which is a big deal even if they don’t win it. So given the long interval between the Dodgers’ last series and today, maybe the Chavez Ravine Curse is finally being lifted. You don’t know about that curse? Sure you do if you are […]
Unless you are from another planet you must have heard by now that (a) the Los Angeles Dodgers (formerly the Brooklyn Dodgers) filed for bankruptcy, and (b) as a result the team was sold to a consortium of investors who paid an astonishing $2.15 billion (with a “b”) for it. Why astonishing? Because, if the […]
The recent take-over of the L.A. Dodgers by the Baseball Commissioner, in the wake of financial problems revealed by the divorce battle of the McCourts, the Dodgers’ current owners, understandably inspired the spilling of much printer’s ink on the sub ject of “dem Bums” (as they used to be called at times when still in […]
It is one of the more obnoxious features of American eminent domain law that once land is taken, its [former] owner loses any right to reclaim it when it is put to uses other than the “public use” specified in the eminent domain action by which the condemnor acquired it. We wrote about it a […]
New York is all atwitter again over the use of eminent domain, complete with a front-page article in the New York Times (Debate Heating Up on Plans For Mosque Near Ground Zero, July 31, 2010). A Muslim group wants to put up a large mosque overlooking the site of the 9/11 atrocity, and many people […]
A while back we wrote a post (It’s That Time Again – Yuck!, Feb. 11, 2008) addressing the ongoing California mess that has taken the form of two competing propositions that are on the ballot in the upcoming election — Propositions 98 and 99, both purporting to amend the state Constitution to restrict the use of […]