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Life, Liberty & Whose Property?: An Essay On Property Rights, Loren A. Smith
Life, Liberty & Whose Property?: An Essay On Property Rights, Loren A. Smith
University of Richmond Law Review
This essay explores the place that the concept of property rights occupies in our constitutional system. The word "property" has been used in a number of ways in the history of our Republic.
Takings In The Court Of Federal Claims: Does The Court Make Takings Policy In Hage?, Danielle M. Stager
Takings In The Court Of Federal Claims: Does The Court Make Takings Policy In Hage?, Danielle M. Stager
University of Richmond Law Review
In the eleven western states, almost half of the land is federally owned and a large percentage of that federal land is used for grazing privately-owned domestic livestock. The Department of the Interior estimates that permitted grazing occurs on thirty-six percent of federal land, but this percentage is much higher in the areas containing more federal rangeland. In 1990, the eleven western states had approximately seventeen million beef cattle and 102,800 beef producers. Roughly eighteen percent of those beef producers had federal grazing permits, but in some states that percentage was much higher. For example, eighty-eight percent of the cattle …