Pavlock v. Indiana
Family sues to stop Indiana’s beachfront land grab
The Pavlock family has owned property along Indiana's Lake Michigan shoreline for generations. Last year, a ruling by the Indiana Supreme Court redefined state law to move lakefront owners' property lines from the water's edge or below to the lake's ordinary high-water mark, turning large swaths of private beach into public property without compens ...
Weyerhaeuser/Markle v. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Government-sanctioned private land grabs over absent animals are illegal
The U.S. Supreme Court opened its fall term on October 1, 2018, with the famous "frog case" out of Louisiana. That's where federal regulators declared more than 1,500 acres of private land as a critical habitat for the dusky gopher frog—a species not seen in the state for more than 50 years. PLF client Edward Poitevent owns 95 percent of the land ...