Stop The Beach Renourishment (Judicial Takings Case) Post-Oral Argument Round Up

Here’s a collection of some of the commentary about yesterday’s oral arguments in Stop the Beach Renourishment, Inc. v. Florida Dep’t of Environmental Protection,No. 08-11 (cert. granted. June 15, 2009). The transcript is available here.

• Our commentary was broken into three parts. The first covered the arguments of the property owners, then the arguments of the State, and finally the arguments of the federal government as amicus.

• The New York Times Greenwire blog: Supreme Court Justices Hear Arguments in high-Stakes Taking Case

• Cato@Liberty: Likely Supreme Court Tie Would Be a Loss to Property Owners

• LA Times: Justices appeal to favor homeowners in Florida beach dispute

• Constitutional Law Prof Blog: Takings Clause: Analysis of Beach Renourishment Oral Arguments Today

• SCOTUSblog: Analysis: An elusive constitutional issue

• The Wall Street Journal Law Blog: A Stevens-less Court Talks Beach Parties, Erosion and Judicial Takings

• New York Times: Homeowner Rights and Hot Dog Sellers Are Talk of Court

• CNN: Justices debate rights of beachfront land owners

• Lawprof D. Benjamin Barros summarizes the arguments: Of Hotdog Stands and Beach Parties — Oral Argument in Stop the Beach

• Lawprof Ilya Somin summarizes the case and the issues: Does Denying Property Owners Ownership Rights to Land Up to the Water Line Amount to a “Judicial Taking”?

• The Wall Street Journal: Property Rights at the Water’s Edge

• PLF’s Tim Sandefur and Steve Giesler: A Florida case with national implications