The Dog That Didn't Bark, Imperial Water, I Love L.A., and Other Tales From the California Takings Litigation Front

摘要

Writer Wallace Stegner once observed, "California is like the rest of the United States, only more so."rnTakings litigation has for three decades been a prominent feature of California's environmental law landscape. As these most recent judicial developments amply demonstrate, California takings jurisprudence at times represents a harbinger of takings trends nationwide, and at others, a marked aberration from legal principles embraced in other jurisdictions. However, what California does on the takings front—as in so many other fields of endeavor—is always entertaining and worthy of note.