Legal Cases Flashcards
Euclid vs. Ambler, 1926
*Key Case* Backed up Zoning: zoning ordinances, regulations and laws must find their justification in some aspect of police power and asserted for the public welfare.
What is the 14th Amendment?
Williams v. Lee 1959
Tribes possess “the right … to make their own laws and be ruled by them.”
Associated Home Builders of Greater East Bay v. City of Livermore dealt with which of the following issues?
Timing of Development based on availability of infrastructure.
In Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Commission, the U.S. Supreme Court considered a regulation adopted pursuant to South Carolina’s Beachfront Management Act that limited development on beachfront property. In this case, the Court held:
The Court found that Lucas was deprived of all economically viable use of the property amounting to a taking calling for just compensation under the Fifth and 14th amendments. (The Coastal Commission enacted a state law that prevented building to prevent erosion AFTER he bought the land)
In this Supreme Court case, the Court found that the Fifth Amendment did not require a literal public use. The majority supported, however, for a “broader and more natural interpretation of public use as ‘public purpose.’”
Select one:
a. Ambler v. Euclid Realty
b. Keystone Bituminous Coal Association v. DeBenedictis
c. Koontz v. St. John’s River Water Management
d. Kelo v. City of New London
The Kelo v. City of New London case was centered on whether the taking of private property and selling it for private development violates the Fifth Amendment takings clause. In this case, the court found that the interpretation of public use is broad.
The correct answer is: Kelo v. City of New London
