Abstract
On June 24, 1994, America's local governments, financially strapped and already subject to potential liability in a number of areas, received an unwelcome gift from the United States Supreme Court--Dolan v. City ofTigard. For the third time in seven years, the Justices ended their term by releasing an opinion further extending the reach of the Fifth Amendment's Takings Clause. This decision was a cause for celebration in the ranks of private property champions and consternation among Court critics who perceive a return to the bad old days of substantive due process, the Court's second-guessing of government decisionmaking, this time in the fields of land-use planning and environmental regulation. ...
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1996
Recommended Citation
Michael Allan Wolf, Fruits of the “Impenetrable Jungle”: Navigating the Boundary Between Land-Use Planning and Environmental Law, 50 Wash. U. J. Urb. & Contemp. L. 5 (1996).
