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The Odyssey Of Palazzolo: Public Rights Litigation And Coastal Change, Laura J. Hatcher, Ph.D.
The Odyssey Of Palazzolo: Public Rights Litigation And Coastal Change, Laura J. Hatcher, Ph.D.
Fordham Urban Law Journal
The question of whether the state has the right to “take” (in the form of regulation) land in its coastal zones is a much more complex question that the courts, to date, have not been able to manage adequately. The problems faced along the coasts are difficult problems, and will likely not be settled by asking judges to determine the “rightness” of claims made through an adversarial process that tends to oversimplify situations in the process of constructing winnable legal arguments. Nor can we rely simply on administrative agencies or legislatures to protect the rights of individuals or protect them …