Smoke Rise, Inc. v. Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission

How courts have described this case

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• moratorium must be reasonably limited as to time; five-year moratorium is reasonable in view of complex multi-juris-dictional sewer problems
• When restrictions are placed on private property in order to create a public benefit rather than to prevent a public harm, a compensable \taking\ has occurred.
• When restrictions are placed on private property in order to create a public benefit rather than to prevent a public harm, a compensable “taking” has occurred.
• in granting motion to dismiss due process claims, explaining that “it is reasonable, if not essential, that the state act to prevent the pollution of its waters by human wastes and the epidemics of disease which flourish under such conditions”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).