As it stands, the 9th Circuit ruling threatens to undermine the 5th Amendment: it would allow the government to take private property through successive enactments that each eliminated only a fraction of the property's value, accomplishing by degrees what the government could not do outright.
Squatter’s rights do not exist; property rights do.
On May 15, 2024, Texas Public Policy Foundation’s James Quintero testified before the Senate committee on the issue of “squatter’s rights.” McCaw Property Management (n.d., para 1) defines a squatter as “somebody who is living on a land or in a building that is either unoccupied, abandoned, or foreclosed without the legal consent of the...