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News & Analysis as of May 24, 2013

The Supreme Court Speaks; Some Taxpayers Shudder

by Elliott B. Pollack | Pullman & Comley, LLC on 1/30/2013

Originally published in the Commercial Property Executive on January 16, 2013. Property owners frequently raise legitimate questions about hard-to-fathom differences between assessments of similar properties, as well as...more

U.S. Supreme Court Grants Certiorari in Koontz IV, Reviewing Decision of Florida Supreme Court

by Rosa Eckstein Schechter on 10/19/2012

We've delved into the background of the Koontz litigation here in past posts; suffice to say that it's a legal controversy between landowner Coy Koontz and his local water management district that has gone on for years (18...more

Virginia Supreme Court Opinion Affecting Local Government Law: September 14, 2012

by Sands Anderson PC on 10/4/2012

On September 14, 2012, the Virginia Supreme Court issued no opinions affecting the practice of Virginia local government law. Actually, that is not true. While no opinions involved cases with local government parties,...more

Privately-Owned Utility Company Liable In Action For Inverse Condemnation

by Kronick, Moskovitz, Tiedemann & Girard on 9/19/2012

A court of appeal recently held that a privately-owned utility company may be held liable for inverse condemnation as a public entity. (Pacific Bell Telephone Company v. Southern California Edison Company (--- Cal.Rptr.3d...more

Allegheny County Countywide Reassessment Plan Adopted

by McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC on 5/10/2010

As we previously reported in this newsletter, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court struck down Allegheny County’s use of a 2002 base-year property tax assessment scheme as unconstitutional in Clifton v. Allegheny County (Pa. April...more