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The Man Behind The Torture, David Cole
The Man Behind The Torture, David Cole
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
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Due Process Land Use Claims After Lingle, J. Peter Byrne
Due Process Land Use Claims After Lingle, J. Peter Byrne
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
The Supreme Court held in Lingle v. Chevron U.S.A. Inc. that challenges to the validity of land use regulations for failing to advance governmental interests must be brought under the Due Process Clause, rather than the Takings Clause, and must be evaluated under a deferential standard. This Article analyzes and evaluates the probable course of such judicial review, and concludes that federal courts will resist due process review of land use decisions for good reasons but not always with an adequate doctrinal explanation. However, state courts can use due process review to provide state level supervision of local land use …