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Legal Environment 5th Edition by Jeffrey Beatty,Susan Samuelson

Edition 5ISBN: 978-1133587491
book Legal Environment 5th Edition by Jeffrey Beatty,Susan Samuelson cover

Legal Environment 5th Edition by Jeffrey Beatty,Susan Samuelson

Edition 5ISBN: 978-1133587491
Exercise 9
David Lucas paid $975,000 for two residential lots on the Isle of Palms near Charleston, South Carolina. He intended to build houses on them. Two years later, the South Carolina legislature passed a statute that prohibited building seaward of a certain line, and Lucas's property fell in the prohibited zone. Lucas claimed that his land was now useless and that South Carolina owed him its value. Explain his claim. Should he win?
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Under the Takings Clause, the government...

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