Webinar: Recent Developments in Fifth Amendment Takings Jurisprudence

Please join us for a U.S. Court of Federal Claims Bar Association webinar program to discuss recent developments in Fifth Amendment takings jurisprudence.

Panel Featuring:

David Harrington
US DOJ, ENRD

Nathaniel Yale
US DOJ, Civil Division

John Echeverria, Professor
Vermont Law School

Moderator:

Bill Bergmann
Baker & Hostetler

John Echeverria is a Professor of Law at Vermont Law School where he teaches Property, Water Resources, and other environmental and natural resource law courses. Prior to joining the Vermont Law School faculty, he served for 12 years as Executive Director of the Georgetown Environmental Law & Policy Institute at Georgetown University Law Center. Professor Echeverria filed a friend of the court brief on behalf of property law professors in the Cedar Point case.

Nathanael Yale is a Trial Attorney in the Commercial Litigation Branch of the United States Department of Justice. Mr. Yale represents the United States in a wide variety of matters before the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the United States Court of Federal Claims, with an emphasis on Fifth Amendment takings claims. He also has extensive experience with Federal employment matters, government contract litigation, government procurement challenges, and veteran’s benefit claims. Before joining the Department of Justice, Mr. Yale was an associate with the law firm Latham & Watkins LLP. In 2002, Mr. Yale graduated from the University of Michigan, with high honors, Phi Beta Kappa, and he received his J.D. degree, magna cum laude, from Cornell University Law School in 2005.

David Harrington is an Assistant Chief in the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the United States Department of Justice. Mr. Harrington supervises a team of attorneys that focuses largely on Fifth Amendment takings claims before the United States Court of Federal Claims. Such claims include alleged takings based on riverine flooding, the governmental response to storms such as Hurricane Harvey, the conversion of railroads to public recreational trails, and the regulation of land by the Army Corps of Engineers under the Clean Water Act. Prior to his work at ENRD, Mr. Harrington spent nearly 15 years in the Justice Department’s Civil Division, where he tried numerous takings and contract cases, and in private practice. Mr. Harrington is a graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law.