If the Constitution is Dead, where does that leave Takings?

Legal Planet: Environmental Law and Policy 2013-01-31

Summary:

Justice Scalia is getting a lot of attention for his comment that the Constitution is “dead, dead, dead”, but obviously he didn’t mean that the Constitution is no longer in effect.  (See?  Intent theory sometimes is helpful, Nino.).  Rather, he meant that the Constitution does not have a meaning that changes over time.  It has [...]

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academia property rights litigation regulatory takings antonin scalia john marshall johnson v. m'intosh michael rappaport original meaning pennsylvania coal v. mahon samuel johnson textualism william blackstone

Authors:

Jonathan Zasloff

Date tagged:

01/31/2013, 21:40

Date published:

01/31/2013, 21:04