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Zoning, Planning and Use

May 13, 2006

Agencies Still Flub Basic Duty for Taking Property

Forum Column - By Michael M. Berger - It is very strange. One would have thought that the elementary concept that the government may not take private property without giving notice had been settled long ago. (In fact, it was.)

Forum Column

By Michael M. Berger
     
      It is very strange. One would have thought that the elementary concept that the government may not take private property without giving notice had been settled long ago. (In fact, it was.) But recently, agencies from coast to coast have run afoul of this bedrock due process notion, and even the U.S. Supreme Court has had to intervene.
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