By Dawn Geske at Northern California Record

July 8, 2016

ST CROIX COUNTY – California, along with eight other states, has filed an amicus brief in the property rights case of Murr v. Wisconsin, currently being heard by the Supreme Court.

The case focuses on whether property owners are entitled to compensation for their property under the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment. The property owners in this case, the Murr family, are fighting for the right to sell one parcel of land of the two lots it owns in a subdivision on the St. Croix River in Wisconsin.

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