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Volume 88.8
Can Procedure Take?: The Judicial Takings Doctrine and Court Procedure
Rebecca Hansen
B.A. 2017, Brown University; J.D. Candidate 2022, The University of Chicago Law School.

Thank you to Alec Mouser, Kelly Gregg, Henry Walter, Sam Sherman, Ryne Cannon, the University of Chicago Law Review editors, and Professors Lee Fennell and Lior Strahilevitz for their help and advice.

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, several state legislatures and executives limited the circumstances in which landlords could evict their tenants. Predictably, many of these moratoria were met with challenges under the Fifth Amendment’s Takings Clause, which prohibits the government from taking private property for public use without just compensation.

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