{"id":594,"date":"2013-07-07T21:25:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-07T21:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/?p=594"},"modified":"2023-12-21T17:16:54","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T17:16:54","slug":"low-flying-planes-may-effect-an-unconstitutional-taking-of-property","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/2013\/07\/07\/low-flying-planes-may-effect-an-unconstitutional-taking-of-property\/","title":{"rendered":"Low flying planes may effect an unconstitutional taking of property"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled that frequent, low-flying aircraft may so interfere with the use and enjoyment of property as to constitute an unconstitutional taking of property by the state.\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wicourts.gov\/sc\/opinion\/DisplayDocument.pdf?content=pdf&amp;seqNo=84983\" target=\"_blank\">Brenner v. New Richmond Regional Airport Comm&#8217;n,<\/a>\u00a0816 N.W.2d 291 (Wis. 2012). Owners located near an airport sued the airport authority when it extended a runway in a manner that created low overflights of their property. The court held that a taking could occur if the flights were &#8220;low enough and frequent enough to have a direct and immediate effect on the use and enjoyment of property.&#8221; 816 N.W.2d at 294.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"taxonomy-category wp-block-post-terms\"><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/category\/takings\/\" rel=\"tag\">Takings<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled that frequent, low-flying aircraft may so interfere with the use and enjoyment of property as to constitute an unconstitutional taking of property by the state.\u00a0Brenner v. New Richmond Regional Airport Comm&#8217;n,\u00a0816 N.W.2d 291 (Wis. 2012). Owners located near an airport sued the airport authority when it extended a runway in a manner that created low overflights of their property. The court held that a taking could occur if the flights were &#8220;low enough and frequent enough to have a direct and immediate effect on the use and enjoyment of property.&#8221; 816 N.W.2d at 294.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-takings"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"jsinger","author_link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/author\/jsinger\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}