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- Title
Burnt Lands, Dry Lakes, and Empty Pockets: Emergency Water Takings and Wildfires.
- Authors
Ronchetti, Alexander
- Abstract
The article explores whether in a wildfire, will U.S. governmental actors be able to take water owned by a private citizen and whether even in an emergency scenario, the government owe just compensation under the Fifth Amendment Takings Clause. Topics covered include the need for the law to respond to an emergency water taking in two ways, the reason of courts that a seizure of water rights constitutes a governmental taking,and the laws regulating surface water rights in Western states.
- Subjects
UNITED States; TAKINGS clause (Constitutional law); EMERGENCY water supply; WILDFIRES; WATER rights; SEARCHES &; seizures (Law)
- Publication
Arizona State Law Journal, 2019, Vol 51, Issue 3, p1189
- ISSN
0164-4297
- Publication type
Article