Morton P. MacLeod v. County of Santa Clara

How courts have described this case

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

• rejecting a Penn Central claim when the landowner “was free to continue to raise cattle or to lease out the property for grazing lands”
• rejecting the argument that a taking occurred when the government denied an owner’s permit to “exploit his property by pursuing a particular project” that he believed “would be available for development”
• “The Supreme Court has repeatedly held that 21 mere diminution in value, standing alone, cannot establish a taking.”
• “We are unwilling to equate immediate overall profitability with the requirement of ʻeconomic viability.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).