Woodbury County Soil Conservation District v. Ortner

How courts have described this case

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• holding that provisions of soil conservation statutes, which require landowners to terrace property at landowners’ expense is a proper exercise of police power and does not constitute a taking of private property
• holding that provisions of soil conservation statutes, which require landowners to terrace property at landowners' expense is a proper exercise of police power and does not constitute a taking of private property
• even exercise of police power may amount to taking if it deprives owner of substantial use and enjoyment of property
• regulations enacted to promote public health and welfare are valid exercises of police power for which no compensation need be paid
• “Even the exercise of police power, however, may amount to a taking if it deprives a property owner of the substantial use and enjoyment of his property.”
• landowners forced to terrace property at landowners’ expense

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).