Property Rights
Homeowner's Symbolic Fight Ends
In what is almost a real-life caricature of the battle of the single homeowner against the huge corporation, Edith Macefield refused to sell her home to a developer planning a major retail outlet, who then built around. This week Ms. Macefield died.
Eroding Beach Sparks Property Rights Battle
As a Texas beach erodes and the waves come closer to shore, homeowners are scrambling to figure out what to do when the public beach invades their private property.
'Takings' Case Challenges Govt. Rights Over Federal Lands
A case over land rights in the West going back decades has been awarded to the estate of a deceased property rights activist, who contended that the Forest Service deprived his ranch of water.
Oregon's Property Rights Debate Offers Lessons to Nation
Oregon's property rights issues should serve as a cautionary tale for the rest of the country, according to this article from Metropolis.
Reinventing Conservation Easements
In recent decades conservation easements—promises to restrict land development—have become enormously popular, but now they are in trouble.
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