Please help with teh following:
Read the Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council case then respond to the following question outlines.
Question 1: According to the majority opinion in the Lucas case, what two types of regulatory action automatically trigger compensation as takings, without needing to examine the circumstances in a case-specific way?
Question 2: Why does the dissent object to the takings approach laid out by the majority?
Question 3: Can cities take private property and transfer it to private developers for the sake of economic revitalization?
Question 4: What are the ethical issues surrounding the principle of using eminent domain to take away the property ownership rights of individuals?
Question 5: How would you feel if you purchased land and then were told you could not build for environmental reasons or merely that the government would be taking the property away from you?