Hawkeye Commodity Promotions, Inc. v. Vilsack

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that investment-backed expectations did not weigh in favor of a taking in heavily regulated gambling industry
• permitting legislation banning one type of gambling, but not all types of gambling, as an “incremental reform”
• “A state's police power encompasses controlling gambling, even to the point of abolishing a particular lottery game.”
• character of state law banning lottery game was more like a public program than a physical invasion because the owner of video lottery machines -8- “still has the right to possess, lease and sell the machines”
• evaluating a plaintiff’s “property- in-contracts argument” by examining Iowa law
• “[I]t appears that Lucas protects real property only.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).