Legal Opinion
Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 29, 1992No. 91-453PublishedCited by 2,223 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Scalia
In 1986, petitioner David H. Lucas paid $976,000 for two residential lots on the Isle of Palms in Charleston County, *1007South Carolina, on which he intended to build single-family homes. In 1988, however, the South Carolina Legislature enacted the Beachfront Management Act, S. C. Code Ann. § 48-39-250 et seq. (Supp. 1990), which had the direct effect of barring petitioner from erecting any permanent habitable structures on his two parcels.' See §48-39-290(A). A state trial court found that this prohibition rendered Lucas’s parcels "valueless.” App. to Pet. for Cert. 37. This case requires us to…
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