This post is a bit far-fetched for an insurance law blog, but reports a significant event in our office because the three Damon Key bloggers teamed up to file an amicus brief today in Stop the Beach  Renourishment, Inc. v. Florida Dep't. of Environmental Protection, No. 08-11, cert. granted June 15, 2009, [brief here] on behalf of Owners' Counsel of America.  This is the controversial "judicial takings" case in which the Florida Supreme Court upheld a law allowing the state to take for the public good beach front property even though it altered long-standing rights of owners to the accretion on their land and direct access to the ocean. The issue before the U.S. Supreme Court is whether the Florida court's reversal of more than 100 years of Florida law was a judicial taking, and whether the Florida court's decision violated due process.

   Fellow blogger Mark Murakami (oceanlawhawaii.com) and I assisted Robert Thomas (inversecondemnation.com) with the brief.  Robert's blog  [here] and Mark's blog [here] provide more a complete background of the case.