Co-blogger Jonathan Adler recently posted about Alford v. Walton County, an important new 11th Circuit ruling holding that a local ordinance barring property owners from accessing their beachfront ...
In Tyler v. Hennepin County (2023), a unanimous Supreme Court ruled that "home equity theft" is unconstitutional. If the government forecloses on a property for nonpayment of taxes or other debts, it ...
A self-described "urban cowboy" is fighting a Georgia county over horses it seized from him years ago. The last clause of the Fifth Amendment is straightforward: “nor shall private property be taken ...
Justices Neil Gorsuch and Sonia Sotomayor have called for further review of a key constitutional question concerning the Takings Clause after the Supreme Court declined to hear a case involving Vicki ...
The COVID pandemic brought out the worst of the Nanny State in the name of public health. From school closures, to scientifically dubious social distancing and mask mandates, few elected officials ...
“The resulting destruction from this step-by-step rejection of judicial humility is as unnecessary as it is regrettable," a dissenting circuit court judge wrote. In a move that U.S. District Court for ...
The Takings Clause of the 5th Amendment "was designed to bar Government from forcing some people alone to bear public burdens," the Supreme Court said in Armstrong v. United States, "which, in all ...
The COVID pandemic brought out the worst of the Nanny State in the name of public health. From school closures, to scientifically dubious social distancing and mask mandates, few elected officials ...