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City Destroys Home Without Paying: Will the Supreme Court Take the Case?

City Destroys Home Without Paying: Will the Supreme Court Take the Case?
A town sign of Greenwood Village, Colorado, on April 6, 2019. photo-denver/Shutterstock
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City authorities destroyed the Lech family home. Everyone acknowledges that the Lechs were entirely innocent. Yet the city has refused compensation.

Rob Natelson
Rob Natelson
Author
Robert G. Natelson, a former constitutional law professor who is senior fellow in constitutional jurisprudence at the Independence Institute in Denver, authored “The Original Constitution” (4th ed., 2025). He is a contributor to The Heritage Foundation’s “Heritage Guide to the Constitution.” He also researched and wrote the scholarly article “Virgil and the Constitution,” whose publication is pending in Regent University Law Review.
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