November 20, 2023

The Buckeye Institute joined an amicus brief filed in DeVillier v. Texas, calling on the U.S. Supreme Court to reaffirm the constitutional right to seek just compensation in federal court when the government takes private property. “History teaches—and the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed—that the Fifth Amendment’s just compensation clause is self-executing. That means that Congress does not need to pass a law requiring states to follow the Fifth Amendment.” 

The Buckeye Institute filed an amicus brief in Sheetz v. County of El Dorado, calling on the U.S. Supreme Court to protect the rights of property owners from government extortion, where, in this case, the government charged George Sheetz more than $20,000 in permitting fees to help finance wholly unrelated county road improvement projects. The National Federation of Independent Business joined The Buckeye Institute in filing the brief.