Lucas V. South Carolina Coastal Council Case
The image of Davis Lucas that emerges from majority Justice Scalia description is strikingly different from the one that Justice Blackmun creates in his dissent. What are the two contrasting stories in this case? Do you think that when Lucas bought the land at issue here, in 1986, he had reason to know that by building on it he would soon be the owner of a “pig in a parlor”?