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THE TAKINGS PROJECT:
Using Federal Courts to
Attack Community and Environmental Protections
by Douglas T. Kendall
& Charles P. Lord
Community Rights Counsel
April 1998
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY HTML
CHAPTER 1: Introduction HTML
or PDF
CHAPTER 2: The Takings Clause, Takings
Doctrine Circa 1985 & Richard Epstein's Theory HTML
or PDF
CHAPTER 3:The Origins of the Takings
Project HTML
or PDF
CHAPTER 4:The Takings Project HTML
or PDF
CHAPTER 5: The Results HTML
or PDF
CHAPTER 6:Implications and Conclusions HTML
or PDF
For a hard copy of the report,
contact Community Rights Counsel at 202-296-6889 or crc@communityrights.org
The Takings Project: Using Federal
Courts to Attack Community and Environmental Protections,
is a comprehensive investigative report that chronicles
and critiques the increasingly successful campaign by
conservative legal activists to use the court system to
further an anti-regulatory political agenda. The report
traces what it dubs the "Takings Project" from
its roots in the U.S. Justice Department under Attorney
General Edwin Meese, through the systematic efforts of
developers and property rights groups to move takings
cases through the court system and finally to the case
law, where conservative jurists have ignored procedural
rules and made significant leaps in the face of precedent
in order to upend the accepted interpretation of the
Takings Clause.
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