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Property Law: 1995 Survey Of Florida Law, Ronald B. Brown, Joseph M. Grohman, Manuel R. Valcarcel Iv Oct 1995

Property Law: 1995 Survey Of Florida Law, Ronald B. Brown, Joseph M. Grohman, Manuel R. Valcarcel Iv

Faculty Scholarship

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Pinpointing The Beginning And Ending Of A Temporary Regulatory Taking, Gregory M. Stein Oct 1995

Pinpointing The Beginning And Ending Of A Temporary Regulatory Taking, Gregory M. Stein

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Stories Out Of School: Teaching The Case Of Brown V. Voss, Elizabeth Samuels Mar 1995

Stories Out Of School: Teaching The Case Of Brown V. Voss, Elizabeth Samuels

All Faculty Scholarship

As a law teacher, I have observed these benefits of the case method, particularly with conducive appellate opinions and a skillfully assembled text. But I have also experienced, as I suspect most law teachers have, instances in which a case that lacks a sufficiently revealing narrative seems to mystify more than elucidate. One example is the case of Brown v. Voss, which appears in a number of property law casebooks, including the widely used Property by Jesse Dukeminier and James E. Krier. In Brown v. Voss the State of Washington Supreme Court departs, in a somewhat disingenuous way, from an …


Shaping Today's Forfeiture Law: A Conversation With Senator Mcclellan, G. Robert Blakey Jan 1995

Shaping Today's Forfeiture Law: A Conversation With Senator Mcclellan, G. Robert Blakey

Journal Articles

In any society, the government's ability to interfere with life, liberty or property is always open for full discussion. In this conversation, Professor Blakey discusses property in the context of organized and white-collar crime, in addition to criminal forfeiture, and frames his discussion around his work with Senator John McClellan on drafting the Organized Crime Control Act.


Regulatory Takings And Ripeness In The Federal Courts, Gregory M. Stein Jan 1995

Regulatory Takings And Ripeness In The Federal Courts, Gregory M. Stein

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The Supreme Court held in 1987 that compensation is required automatically whenever a municipality takes property by regulation. The Court has also held repeatedly that federal courts cannot even hear such claims until the landowner meets a demanding ripeness test. Landowners are often unable to survive the protracted ripening period even though their claims might ultimately have proved to be valid. And the occasional municipality that loses a takings case may be liable for a huge award that reflects the lengthy ripening period. Federal courts have persistently refused to acknowledge this tension between takings law and takings procedure. This Article …