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Stop The Reach: Solving The Judicial Takings Problem By Objectively Defining Property, Steven C. Begakis
Stop The Reach: Solving The Judicial Takings Problem By Objectively Defining Property, Steven C. Begakis
Notre Dame Law Review
The future of judicial takings may rest on the ability of the Court to define property in a robust and objective way. Property has essential characteristics that make it easily identifiable, the most significant of which are the rights to exclude and use. However, even when a property right does not fit within a neat categorical definition, should that right have a long, well established pedigree in state court precedent, that property right is similarly within the capacity of the reviewing court to identify. And once it is determined that, prior to the judgment, the petitioners possessed a clearly defined …