• An extraordinary tale of fraud and justice: Second Circuit puts definitive kibosh on tainted $9 billion Chevron/Ecuador judgment [decision, Debra Cassens Weiss, ABA Journal, our coverage over many years] “Attorney Who Took Chevron to Court for $18 Billion Suspended by Amazon Defense Front” [Roger Parloff, Fortune]
• New Zealand accords legal personality to river and former national park through treaty settlements with Maori groups [New York Times]
• “The looting of Volkswagen: The company deserves a fine, but politicians keep demanding more” [WSJ editorial]
• Property owners have constitutional rights against NYC landmarks-law NIMBYism [Ilya Shapiro and Randal John Meyer] Where court protection of owners is weaker, cities designate more properties as historic [Nick Zaiac, Market Urbanism] “Against Historic Preservation” [Alex Tabarrok]
• “The growing battle over the use of eminent domain to take property for pipelines” [Ilya Somin]
• “How Anti-Growth Sentiment, Reflected in Zoning Laws, Thwarts Equality” [Conor Dougherty, New York Times, via John Cochrane] Life without zoning goes on in Houston [Scott Beyer, The Federalist]

Filed under: Chevron, eminent domain, historic preservation, Houston, land use and zoning, New Zealand, NYC, oil industry, Volkswagen