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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: SSG Snuggle Bunny on August 26, 2025, 11:39:56 AM
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https://www.legalnewsline.com/northern-california-record/ca-court-shrugs-off-scotus-impact-fees-still-constitutional/article_aec77f46-ca5b-4981-8120-691d492da4f6.html
SACRAMENTO - A California appeals court has reaffirmed its position that a $23,420 traffic impact fee applied to an 1,800-square-foot home does not run afoul of the Constitution’s Takings Clause, even though the U.S. Supreme Court earlier this year tightened the rules on such fees.
The court in California’s Third Appellate District filed the opinion on July 29, rejecting plaintiff George Sheetz’ arguments that El Dorado County’s imposition of the fee a decade ago violated his constitutional rights and was not proportional to the developmental impacts of building the modest manufactured home..
The Fifth Amendment’s Takings Clause bars government agencies from taking private property without just compensation.
Sheetz, a former Los Angeles resident who relocated to Northern California and eventually became head of an engineering contracting company, has been represented by the Pacific Legal Foundation, which won the favorable opinion from the U.S. Supreme Court in April.
Have lefty courts just decided they are sovereigns unto themselves?
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...Have lefty courts just decided they are sovereigns unto themselves?
Don't defy our decisions, Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch tells judges (https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/26/justice-gorsuch-defy-supreme-court-decisions-trump/85816250007/)
Apparently it's enough of a recurring problem that Justice Gorsuch is actually warning them not to go there. :whatever: