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Constitutional Law

Jul. 7, 2001

Land Locked

One of the most frustrating things about land-use litigation for landowners has been the procedural gauntlet that lies between them and trial.

        By Michael M. Berger
        
        Reading U.S. Supreme Court land-use decisions has become a pleasant task. Indeed, it largely has been so since the day in June 1987 when six justices (who spanned the philosophical spectrum from Thurgood Marshall and William Brennan to William Rehnquist and Antonin Scalia) told the California ...

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