April 2025

Is a Deer You Keep on Your Land Your Deer? Not in Texas Anyway

By |2025-04-29T10:01:18+00:00April 29th, 2025|Sovereign Immunity, Takings, Texas Law|

Earlier this month, the Court of Appeals of Texas, Fifteenth District, Austin, issued its opinion in a dispute between the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (“TPWD”) and a white-tailed deer breeder. (Editor's Note: I can’t say I had personally ever heard of anyone breeding white-tailed deer before reading this opinion, as in Virginia and North [...]

May 2024

Sovereign Immunity Remains Alive and Well in Virginia: Page v. Portsmouth Redevelopment & Hous. Authority

By |2024-05-07T14:35:03+00:00May 7th, 2024|Affordable Housing, Sovereign Immunity, Virginia Law|

On June 20, 2023, the Court of Appeals of Virginia (the “CAV”) issued, in an unpublished decision, Page v. Portsmouth Redevelopment & Hous. Auth., No. 0175-22-1, 2023 Va. App. LEXIS 407 (2023). In the underlying circuit court case, H. Cliff Page (“Page”) challenged the Portsmouth Redevelopment and Housing Authority’s ("PRHA") role in demolishing a building [...]

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