Q. Review “Lucas v. South Carolina Costal Council” in Chapter 6. Students will respond to the subsequent:
The image of David Lucas that emerges from majority Justice Scalia’s description is strikingly different from the one that Justice Blackman creates in his dissent. Identify the two contrasting stories in this case.
Explain why you think that when Lucas bought the land at issue, in 1986, he did or did not have reason to know that by building on it he would be the owner of a “pig in a parlor.”
Examine the two types of regulatory action that, according to the majority, automatically triggers compensation as takings, without a court needing to examine the circumstances in a case-specific manner.