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Posted on 06/25/2013 4:22:23 PM PDT by WilliamIII
WASHINGTON — A legal dispute that started with Florida wetlands ended Tuesday in a Supreme Court victory for conservatives and private property advocates nationwide.
In a 5-4 decision that could impede government regulators at all levels, the court effectively made it harder for public agencies to demand property or money in exchange for issuing a land-use permit. At a certain point, the conservative majority reasoned, these demands amount to an unconstitutional taking of property without compensation.
“Land-use permit applicants are especially vulnerable to (this) type of coercion,” Justice Samuel Alito wrote for the majority, “because the government often has broad discretion to deny a permit that is worth far more than property it would like to take.”
Most immediately, the decision cheers Coy Koontz Jr., a Raleigh, N.C., resident whose late father, Coy Koontz Sr., bought the Florida property in question.
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Thank you George Bush!!!!!!
I share your fear.
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Perpetual GovernMental EnvironMental Nonsense that only makes everything cost more!!!
What about the Sierra-Nevada CONservancy that covers the other side of the state? Over 1/5th of the state!!!
another victory for constitution loving people everywhere from the oberts court....
this guy is batting 1000....
Please, enough w/ the morality clap-trap.
The ONLY thing the USSC should, and is ‘authorized’ to do, is rule on cases based on the Constitution. Anything else is outside their ability and purview. And as such, Congress SHOULD be smacking them back or taking them off the bench
Already we see a 5-4 split in almost ALL cases where it should an easy/slam-dunk...when one reads, understands and FOLLOWS the Constitution.
The only ‘problem’ We the People have, is having an ineffective Congress that doesn’t do it’s damn JOB
“What about the Sierra-Nevada CONservancy that covers the other side of the state? Over 1/5th of the state!!!”
In order to have a decent place to live, the decent people living in California would need to excise everything below the Tehachapi’s, and everything west of I5 until you get to the Mendocino County line. You would obviously have to also put a wall around the area that includes Sacramento and Stockton. The only part of the coastline would be from Mendocino northward. The infection has gone that far!
I've long promoted on FR the dividing line for CA from "Sierra Republic" be by leaving any county that is in contact with salt water in CA and granting statehood to the 51st state of "Sierra Republic" made up of the rest of decadent old CA's countys!!!
Sacramento and San Jaquin countys both have deep water ports that keep them in contact with salt water by way of dredging. It's too bad we can't make exceptions for Riverside and San Diego counties but... Oh well, Sayanara... We must make the division on some major and strongly consistent natural basis!!!
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