Gaughen v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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• holding that de facto taking may occur when a government entity’s action causes an owner to lose tenants and the ability to generate rental income
• DOT repeatedly asked township to delay development within highway corridor and interfered with developer’s efforts to obtain financing
• DOT repeatedly asked township to delay development within highway corridor and interfered with developer's efforts to obtain financing
• first citing and discussing Lawton, 412 A.2d at 217 (explaining that when public awareness of planned condemnation caused the landowner to lose income from tenants and led to potential 12 loss of the property, a de facto taking had occurred

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).