To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: As former U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens famously explained, more than 30 years ago, about the Supreme Court’s takings cases: “Even the wisest of lawyers would have to acknowledge great uncertainty about the scope of this Court’s takings jurisprudence.” Nollan v. California Coastal Comm’n, 483 U.S. 825, 866 (1987) (dissenting opinion). The Court has done little since then to establish any clear, bright line rules. Instead, the Court has established an array of unworkable ad hoc factual inquiries that produc...