High Court’s Grant Of ‘Takings’ Case Ratchets Up Focus On Regulatory Limits

The Supreme Court’s announcement this week that it will hear a case seeking to expand limits on “regulatory takings” through permit conditions has broadened what was already shaping up to be a pivotal term for the future of rulemaking authority at all levels of government, court watchers say. Sheetz v. County of El Dorado , which the justices took up in their Oct. 10 orders , tests whether state and local laws that attach monetary fees and other conditions to...