Legal Opinion
First English Evangelical Lutheran Church v. County of Los Angeles
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 9, 1987No. 85-1199PublishedCited by 1,240 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Rehnquist
In this case the California Court of Appeal held that a landowner who claims that his property has been “taken” by a land-use regulation may not recover damages for the time be*307fore it is finally determined that the regulation constitutes a “taking” of his property. We disagree, and conclude that in these circumstances the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution would require compensation for that period.
In 1957, appellant First English Evangelical Lutheran Church purchased a 21-acre parcel of land in a canyon along the banks of the Middle Fork of Mill Creek in the…
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