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Non-Enforcement Takings
Boston College Law Review
  • Timothy M. Mulvaney, Texas A&M University School of Law
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-2018
ISSN
0161-6587
Abstract

The non-enforcement of existing property laws is not logically separable from the issue of unfair and unjust state deprivations of property rights at which the Constitution's Takings Clause takes aim. This Article suggests, therefore, that takings law should police allocations resulting from non-enforcement decisions on the same "fairness and justice" grounds that it polices allocations resulting from decisions to enact and enforce new regulations. Rejecting the extant majority position that state decisions not to enforce existing property laws are categorically immune from takings liability is not to advocate that persons impacted by such decisions should be automatically or even regularly entitled to the Takings Clause's constitutional remedy. Rather, it simply suggests that courts should resist the temptation to formulaically and categorically prohibit non-enforcement takings claims in favor of assessing those claims on the merits.

Num Pages
71
Publisher
Boston College Law School
File Type
PDF
Citation Information
Timothy M. Mulvaney. "Non-Enforcement Takings" Boston College Law Review Vol. 59 Iss. 1 (2018) p. 145 - 215
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/timothy_mulvaney/50/