Botello-Samson reconceptualizes the relationship between regulatory agencies and regulatory takings litigation. By analyzing the impact of such litigation on the implementation of two federal environmental statutes, the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act and the Endanger…
In 2005, the Supreme Court ruled that the city of New London, Connecticut, could condemn 15 residential properties in order to transfer them to a new private owner. Although the Fifth Amendment only permits the taking of private property for 'public use, ' the Court ruled that t…
In 2005, the Supreme Court ruled that the city of New London, Connecticut, could condemn 15 residential properties in order to transfer them to a new private owner. Although the Fifth Amendment only permits the taking of private property for 'public use, ' the Court ruled that t…
"In 2005, the Supreme Court ruled that the city of New London, Connecticut, could condemn fifteen residential properties in order to transfer them to a new private owner. Although the Fifth Amendment only permits the taking of private property for 'public use, ' the court ruled …
In 2005, the Supreme Court ruled that the city of New London, Connecticut, could condemn 15 residential properties in order to transfer them to a new private owner. Although the Fifth Amendment only permits the taking of private property for 'public use, ' the Court ruled that t…
"I can hardly think of a topic in land use policy, or indeed in environmental policy in general, more timely and important than the one addressed in this book. Who Owns America? is an important contribution to the field."--Robert G. Healy, professor of env.
Annotation Worsham (political science, West Virginia U.) and Olivetti (a graduate student of Worsham's whose dissertation was on the property rights movement) have written a short, pithy study tracing the history of the property rights movement. The movement's formation in oppos…