Ford v. Lee

How courts have described this case

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• declaring that proposed legislation creating a footpath along privately-owned intertidal land would constitute an unconstitutional taking
• declaring that proposed legislation creating a footpath along privately-owned intertidal land would constitute an unconstitutional taking
• stating that mussel mud consists of \living and dead shell fish ... and the soil or clay in which they were found\ (alteration in original) (quoting Porter v. Shehan , 73 Mass. 435 , 436 (1856)
• stating that mussel mud consists of “living and dead shell fish . . . and the soil or clay in which they were found” (alteration in original) (quoting Porter v. Shehan, 73 Mass. 435, 436 (1856)
• regarding as unconstitutional proposed legislation that would create a \public on-foot free right-of-passage\ along the state's intertidal zone
• stating argument of amicus curiae, unanimously rejected by the Massachusetts justices

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