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The Morality Of Regulation, Loren A. Smith Apr 1998

The Morality Of Regulation, Loren A. Smith

William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review

No abstract provided.


Land Use Regulation And The Takings Clause: How Much Use Must An Owner Lose Before Being Entitled To Compensation Because The Government Has Taken The Property?, Patrick C. Mcginley Feb 1997

Land Use Regulation And The Takings Clause: How Much Use Must An Owner Lose Before Being Entitled To Compensation Because The Government Has Taken The Property?, Patrick C. Mcginley

Law Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Evolving Thresholds Of Nuisance And The Takings Clause, John A. Humbach Jan 1993

Evolving Thresholds Of Nuisance And The Takings Clause, John A. Humbach

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

This article reviews the historical tradition in which the common law core of nuisance has been the frequent subject of statutory additions and refinements, providing most of our modern law of land use and environmental protection. Until Lucas, the Takings Clause had not been treated as a charter establishing the courts as boards of revision to rethink and selectively veto legislative determinations in the land use field. Within the scope of “total takings,” however, Lucas has converted the Takings Clause from its original meaning and made it exactly that.


"Taking" The Imperial Judiciary Seriously: Segmenting Property Interests And Judicial Revision Of Legislative Judgments, John A. Humbach Jan 1993

"Taking" The Imperial Judiciary Seriously: Segmenting Property Interests And Judicial Revision Of Legislative Judgments, John A. Humbach

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

This Article examines the diversion of the Takings Clause from its historic limited role to that of a charter for courts to second-guess legislative determinations of land-use rights and wrongs. As we shall see, prior to Lucas the Supreme Court and others following its lead have generally not regarded the Takings Clause as a warrant for reaching de novo determinations on land use problems and then substituting such judicial determinations, if different, for those of the legislature. Some notable exceptions in the Claims Court and Federal Circuit will then be considered along with the ostensible Supreme Court authority, a sentence …


What Is Behind The "Property Rights" Debate?, John A. Humbach Jan 1992

What Is Behind The "Property Rights" Debate?, John A. Humbach

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council' obviously presents issues that range far more broadly than just whether people should be allowed to build on beaches and dunes. Many observers have viewed the case as a splendid opportunity for the Supreme Court to re-establish private owner autonomy in land use decisions - to cut down, perhaps drastically, on elected legislatures' traditional power to protect the environment by regulating uses of land. Behind the "property rights" debate is the question of whether states and communities really ought to have the power that they have traditionally had to control the development and patterns …


Constitutional Limits On The Power To Take Private Property: Public Purpose And Public Use, John A. Humbach Jan 1987

Constitutional Limits On The Power To Take Private Property: Public Purpose And Public Use, John A. Humbach

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

The rights/freedoms dichotomy tacitly permeates Supreme Court ‘takings' jurisprudence, and it has an explanatory power which extends to virtually all ‘takings' cases decided by the Court. Its explanatory power does not, however, extend to the relatively few cases which involve the taking of ‘rights' for purely private use, that is rearrangements of existing private property rights, as opposed to takings for use by the government or its designees in some public service function. Because rearranging the existing pattern of private ownership takes ‘rights' and not mere ‘freedoms,’ we might expect, according to the rights/freedoms pattern, that the Court would uniformly …


Economic Due Process And The Takings Clause, John A. Humbach Jan 1987

Economic Due Process And The Takings Clause, John A. Humbach

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

The discussion which follows will examine the new verbalizations repeatedly employed in Supreme Court takings decisions of the past decade and the Court's enlistment of the just compensation requirement as a basis for undertaking substantive review of legislation. As an introduction, the distinctive historical roles and roots of the substantive due process and just compensation requirements will be reviewed.


Nollan V. California Coastal Commission, Lewis F. Powell Jr. Oct 1986

Nollan V. California Coastal Commission, Lewis F. Powell Jr.

Supreme Court Case Files

No abstract provided.


Searching For The Status Quo, Jeremy Paul Jan 1986

Searching For The Status Quo, Jeremy Paul

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Apartheid Baltimore Style: The Residential Segregation Ordinances Of 1910-1913, Garrett Power May 1983

Apartheid Baltimore Style: The Residential Segregation Ordinances Of 1910-1913, Garrett Power

Faculty Scholarship

On May 15, 1911, Baltimore Mayor J. Barry Mahool signed into law an ordinance for “preserving the peace, preventing conflict and ill feeling between the white and colored races in Baltimore City.” This ordinance provided for the use of separate blocks by African American and whites and was the first such law in the nation directly aimed at segregating black and white homeowners. This article considers the historical significance of Baltimore’s first housing segregation law.


A Unifying Theory For The Just-Compensation Cases: Takings, Regulation And Public Use, John A. Humbach Jan 1982

A Unifying Theory For The Just-Compensation Cases: Takings, Regulation And Public Use, John A. Humbach

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

This discussion begins with some remarks concerning the concept of property as a general matter. It will then consider briefly an approach to the problem which, though promising and advanced, nevertheless falls short of achieving an internally consistent, unifying theory. Following this introduction, an attempt will be made to specify the two distinctive conceptual components of property interests on whose difference the cases seem to turn, and then to demonstrate the suitability of this conceptual distinction as the foundation for a coherent theory of the law.


The Land Rights Of Indigenous Canadian Peoples, Brian Slattery Jan 1979

The Land Rights Of Indigenous Canadian Peoples, Brian Slattery

Brian Slattery

The problem examined in this work is whether the land rights originally held by Canada's Indigenous peoples survived the process whereby the British Crown acquired sovereignty over their territories, and, if so, in what form. The question, although historical in nature, has important implications for current disputes involving Aboriginal land claims in Canada. It is considered here largely as a matter of first impression. The author has examined the historical evidence with a fresh eye, in the light of contemporaneous legal authorities. Due consideration is given to modern case-law, but the primary focus is upon the historical process proper.


United States V. 564.64 Arces Of Land, More Or Less, Situated In Monroe And Pike Counties, Pennsylvania, Lewis F. Powell Jr. Oct 1978

United States V. 564.64 Arces Of Land, More Or Less, Situated In Monroe And Pike Counties, Pennsylvania, Lewis F. Powell Jr.

Supreme Court Case Files

No abstract provided.


Review Of Private Property And The Constitution By Bruce Ackerman, John A. Humbach Jan 1978

Review Of Private Property And The Constitution By Bruce Ackerman, John A. Humbach

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Creditors' Remedies: Does The State Help Those Who Help Themselves, Robert G. Edinger Jan 1975

Creditors' Remedies: Does The State Help Those Who Help Themselves, Robert G. Edinger

Villanova Law Review

No abstract provided.


Subdivision Exactions: The Constitutional Issues, The Judicial Response, And The Pennsylvania Situation, Michael G. Trachtman Jan 1974

Subdivision Exactions: The Constitutional Issues, The Judicial Response, And The Pennsylvania Situation, Michael G. Trachtman

Villanova Law Review

No abstract provided.


Landlord And Tenant - Pennsylvania'a Distress And Distraint Law - Landlord's Distress Procedure Is Per Se Unconstitutional As Violative Of Due Process Of Law, Richard L. Reppert Jan 1973

Landlord And Tenant - Pennsylvania'a Distress And Distraint Law - Landlord's Distress Procedure Is Per Se Unconstitutional As Violative Of Due Process Of Law, Richard L. Reppert

Villanova Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Pennsylvania Supreme Court And Exclusionary Suburban Zoning: From Bilbar To Girsh - A Decade Of Change, John W. Nilon Jr. Jan 1971

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court And Exclusionary Suburban Zoning: From Bilbar To Girsh - A Decade Of Change, John W. Nilon Jr.

Villanova Law Review

No abstract provided.


Recent Developments, Various Editors Jan 1968

Recent Developments, Various Editors

Villanova Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Land Book Assessment Amendment--Enabling Legislation, William H. Waldron Jr. Jun 1935

The Land Book Assessment Amendment--Enabling Legislation, William H. Waldron Jr.

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Constitutional Law--Eminent Domain-Public Use Jan 1935

Constitutional Law--Eminent Domain-Public Use

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Taxation--Constitutional Law--Due Process Of Law As Prescribing Maximum Limits For Direct Property Taxes, Charles W. Caldwell Apr 1934

Taxation--Constitutional Law--Due Process Of Law As Prescribing Maximum Limits For Direct Property Taxes, Charles W. Caldwell

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Constitutional Law--Tax-Exemption Of Realty Purchase With War Insurance Payments, Jack C. Burdett Feb 1933

Constitutional Law--Tax-Exemption Of Realty Purchase With War Insurance Payments, Jack C. Burdett

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Constitutionality Of Emergency Rental Regulation, Walter F. Dodd Jan 1922

Constitutionality Of Emergency Rental Regulation, Walter F. Dodd

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.