International Municipal Lawyers Association
Amicus Curiae
Robert N. Driscoll, Counsel of Record The International Municipal Lawyers Association is a nonprofit, professional organization of more than 2,500 local government attorneys, most of whom serve as corporate counsel for municipalities in the United States. Robert N. Driscoll is a member of the law firm Alston & Bird, where he specializes in litigation, government investigations, and labor and employment law. The following is excerpted from the Amicus Curiae Brief for the Petitioners as submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on June 8, 2009. The presumptive propriety of transferring land from public to private landholders as a means to remedy…