Now that the dust has settled somewhat, for your weekend reading, here are your links to some of the vast amount of commentary which the Murr v. Wisconsin decision has thus far generated:
- “Justices Answer Parcel Question in Property-Rights Dispute” – Courthouse News Service
- “Murr – SCOTUS Meets Dick Babcock’s Ghost” – Gideon Kanner at Gideon’s Trumpet
- “United States Supreme Court Rejects Takings Claim and Upholds Lot Merger Regulation” – Edward Sullivan at Law of the Land blog
- “Yes, Justice Thomas, the doctrine of regulatory takings is originalist” – Jim Burling at PLF Liberty blog
- “Another Bleak Day for Property Owners” – Cato Institute
- “Courthouse Steps: Murr v. Wisconsin Decided – Podcast” – Federalist Society
- “Big Victory for State and Local Governments in Murr” – John Echeverria at Takings Litigation blog
- “SCOTUS Announces New Multi-Factor Test to Determine the Relevant Parcel in Regulatory Takings Cases” – Bryan Wenter at Land Use Development blog
- “Regulatory Takings: U.S. Supreme Court Announces New Test in Wisconsin Case” – Sara Beachy at Wisconsin State Bar’s Inside Track
- “Property Rights Curbed by Top U.S. Court in Development Case” – Bloomberg
- “Murr v. Wisconsin: A Restatement and Complication of the Whole Parcel Rule” – Julie Tappendorf at Municipal Minute
- “Supreme Court limits rights of property owners” – Reuters
- “A Weak Defense of Property Rights at the Supreme Court” – Cato podcast
- “A loss for property rights in Murr v. Wisconsin” – Ilya Somin at Volokh
- “A ‘view’ from the courtroom: The metes and bounds of the term” – SCOTUSblog
- “Supreme Court Rules Against Owner in Land Use Case” – Wall St. Journal
- “Court Chips Away at Property Rights” – Inside Sources
- “A Half-Hearted Two Cheers for the Victory of Federalism over Property Rights in Murr v. Wisconsin ” – Rick Hills at PrawfsBlawg
- “More on Murr – a response to Rick Hills” – Ilya Somin’s response to the above, at Volokh
- “Supreme Court’s muddled definition of property undermines and politicizes conservation” – FREEcology
- “In Property Rights Case, U.S. Supreme Court Sides With Government” – Governing
- “The Supreme Court Muddles Up Property Rights” – Daily Caller
- “US Supreme Court Talks Regulatory Takings in Murr v. Wisconsin” – Texas Agriculture Law Blog
If there are other items which we’ve missed, please send them our way and we’ll revise the list.
Stay tuned. In the next few months, we’re going to be seeing a lot of publishing in the law journals on this issue.