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  • California Supreme Court Recognizes a Partial Taking ( June 1999 )

    The California Supreme Court offers landowners some good news and some bad news in its latest decision on "regulatory takings." In <U>Kavanau v. Santa Monica Rent Control Board</U>, 16 Cal.4th 761 (1997), the court recognized that a property owner alleging that a government agency has taken his or her property without just compensation need not be deprived of all economically viable use of the property in order to demonstrate that a taking has occurred.
  • Condemnation ( June 1999 )

    "Condemnation" or "Eminent Domain" refers to the taking of private property for a public purpose by a governmental .
  • Civil Rights: Rezoning Does Not Give Rise to Constitutional Claims ( October 1998 )

    Plaintiffs were residents of a neighborhood in which the Detroit City Council approved the construction of a Super .
  • Supreme Court Reverses "Taking" Award in Wetland Case ( May 1998 )

    Of all the issues associated with the regulation by government of private property and the use of private property,.
  • When to Raise the Roof ( January 1998 )

    In 1972 Bernadine Suitum and her late husband purchased a lot in the Mill Creek Estates Subdivision of Incline Vil.

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