Wrapping Up 2018, And Previewing 2019's Most Important Case: Final Briefs In Knick v. Township Of Scott

We're going to end 2018 with the latest in what we think was the most important issue of the past year (and which, we predict, will be the most important case in takings law for at least a decade when it likely gets decided in 2019), Knick v. Township of Scott, No. 17-647. That case, as you well know, asks whether a property owner who alleges that a local government action has taken property but hasn't paid the required just compensation is entitled to bring a lawsuit seeking just compensation under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments in a federal court. Thirty years ago, in Williamson County, the Supreme Court said no. Or at least not until the owner has first pursued compensation via a state's available procedures to recover compensation, assuming such procedures exist. Add to the mix the rules of preclusion and full faith and credit — which say that adjudication of questions of takings and compensation during the state's process prohibit a federal court…

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