Roger Pilon, director of the Cato Institute's Center for Constitutional Studies, speculates that they were afraid that the Supreme Court might end up agreeing with the lower court, and thus establish a binding precedent on all other circuits, not just the federal one. Nancie Marzulla, chief legal counsel for the Defenders of Property Rights, suggests that Lucas doesn't necessarily mean that anything less than a total taking is exempt from reimbursement. Since the facts of that case happened to involve a total taking, she says, the Supreme Court was restricted to judging only on that issue. That doesn't mean that anything less might not also be a taking. Thus, she is optimistic about the possibility of future Supreme Court victories for reimbursing people who have any of their property's value taken by government action.
Work Is Cool.
Gen Xers are more positive about work than boomers. By Ed Carson Say goodbye to the Generation X stereotype of suicidal, aimless whiners. It's baby boomers who think reality bites. Wyatt polled 4,300 employees and discovered that workers under age 30 were more satisfied with their jobs than any other age group. In contrast, boomers, those 30-49 years old, were the most negative.