Government Takings Litigation Update - Through the Lens of Love Terminal

Published: May 10, 2019, 6:30 p.m.

b'On April 25, 2019, the Federalist Society\'s Environmental Law & Property Rights Practice Group sponsored a panel discussion on "Government Takings Litigation Update - Through the Lens of Love Terminal."
A 2018 federal circuit court ruling rejected compensation to the plaintiff in a case in which the government took through eminent domain a privately owned airline terminal and physically demolished it. The plaintiffs, now seeking cert before the U.S. Supreme Court, spent $17 million building that terminal at Dallas Love Field Airport. The U.S. Court of Claims ruled that the taking of the terminal was worth more than $133 million, but the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals reversed, declaring the terminal\'s value to be zero, as the investment property had yet to earn a positive cash flow. Our panel of experts discussed the impact of Love Terminal Partners v. U.S. on takings law.
Featuring:

Mr. George Will, Opinion Writer, The Washington Post
Prof. J. Peter Byrne, J. Hampton Baumgartner, Jr., Chair In Real Property Law, Georgetown Law
Ms. Elizabeth P. Papez, Partner, Gibson Dunn
Prof. George L. Priest, Edward J. Phelps Professor of Law and Economics, Yale Law School
Moderator: Mr. Adam Liptak, Supreme Court Correspondent, The New York Times

* * * * *
As always, the Federalist Society takes no position on particular legal or public policy issues; all expressions of opinion are those of the speakers.'