ELR Citation: ELR 20516
No(s). 99-2047 (U.S. Jun 28, 2001)

The court reverses the Rhode Island Supreme Court's holding that a landowner's takings claim arising from the state coastal protection agency's denial of the landowner's permit to develop coastal wetlands was not ripe, but affirms the court's holding that the landowner failed to establish a deprivat...