Earlier this year, the U.S. Supreme Court turned its attention to property boundaries in a case that adds to its corpus on the Takings Clause of the Constitution. In Murr v. Wisconsin , a family challenged a regulation that fused or “merged” its adjacent parcels of land, preventing them from being sold separately. The family claimed that the restriction amounted to a government “taking.” (Murr , 137 S.Ct. 1933 (2017).)  …

Read the article in the American Surveyor, October 2017     Parcels, Taking, and Environmental Protection in Murr v. Wisconsin

 

Written by Lloyd Pilchen who is a municipal, land use, and environmental lawyer with Olivarez Madruga Lemieux O’Neill LLP in Los Angeles. Pilchen serves as city attorney for the City of Ridgecrest and assistant city attorney for the cities of El Monte and San Gabriel in California.