Lopes v. City of Peabody

This appeal concerns damages for the city of Peabody’s (city’s) temporary regulatory taking of Americo Lopes’s property through an overly restrictive zoning provision on part of his lot. During the ten years since the commencement of *306Lopes’s original action to invalidate the zoning provision as it applied to him, this case has been before the Land Court, Superior Court, Appeals Court, this court, and the United States Supreme Court. The new issues raised in this appeal are whether Lopes is entitled (1) to be reimbursed for real estate taxes paid during a temporary regulatory taking of his…