Legal

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.

The Buckeye Institute filed an amicus brief asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear Yim v. Seattle. “Small-scale landlords provide an invaluable service to their communities. They rent apartments in their homes or rent second homes to tenants, adding to the dearth of housing stock in many of our cities. But the city of Seattle forbids these landlords from screening their tenants, which can endanger other tenants and violates the landlord’s constitutionally protected property rights.”