With all of the talk about last week’s oral argument in Koontz v. St. John’s River Water Management District, there has been surprisingly little said about the radical position taken by the state and federal governments. As discussed here and … Continue reading
Post coauthored by Lana Harfoush, Christina Martin and Jonathan Wood The countdown is over! Today Paul J. Beard II argued Pacific Legal Foundation’s Koontz case before the United States Supreme Court. Koontz is a monumental case for PLF and property owners nationwide, … Continue reading
Tomorrow, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in PLF’s property rights case, Koontz. In a series of posts last week, we scrutinized the arguments being made and argued that the Supreme Court precedents set out in Nollan and … Continue reading
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In Koontz, governments across the country argue that the Takings Clause only applies to real property and not to demands for money. But that argument can’t be squared with the text of the Takings Clause which reads: nor shall private … Continue reading
Is money a kind of private property? In PLF’s Koontz case, which attorney Paul Beard II will argue at the U.S. Supreme Court on the 15th, one significant issue is whether the Supreme Court’s previous decisions in Nollan and Dolan … Continue reading
Last week, I wrote about the broad support that our client in Koontz v. St. John’s River water Management District received from landowners, developers, industry associations, legal scholars, land use attorneys, and think tanks from across the nation. Since then, two … Continue reading