Government Gone Wild: the sad case of Wilkie v. Robbins. In perhaps the low point of 2007, the U.S. Supreme Court held that alandowner who was subject to systematic harassment by governmentofficials because he had the temerity to refuse to give up a publiceasement on his land without just compensation did not have acomprehensive federal remedy.
Details of the case here, and an op-ed I wrote about the decision for the Honolulu Advertiser, “Little-noticed decision erodes property rights,” is posted here.