Abstract
If you can't use your land for any economic purpose because of a land-use regulation, government has to pay you compensation. For the present (and with a narrow exception) that's the rule announced by the U.S. Supreme Court by a vote of 6-to-3 in a 75-page decision on June 29 in Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council, No. 91-453, 44 ZD 302.