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William Becker, et al. v. City of Hillsboro, Missouri
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, No. 23-3367 · judgment January 7, 2025
Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.
Questions presented
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Whether the Court of Appeals declined to follow this Court’s opinion in Yee v. City of Escondido, 503 U.S. 519 (1992) by holding that Petitioners had waived on appeal the argument of an unconstitutional regulatory taking under Nollan v. California Coastal Commission, 483 U.S. 825 (1987) and Dolan v. City of Tigard, 512 U.S. 374 (1994) even though they had consistently asserted unconstitutional taking claims under both the United States and Missouri Constitutions.
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Whether government land use regulations which effectively eliminate all use of private property for anything but vacant land amount to an unconstitutional taking under Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council, 505 U.S. 1003 (1992)
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Steven W. Koslovsky
Steve Koslovsky, LLC
For respondent
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Case
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Proceedings
- Jun 06 2025Petition DENIED.
- May 20 2025DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/5/2025.
- Apr 02 2025Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due May 7, 2025)