JOSEPH P. MURR, et al., Petitioners v. WISCONSIN, et al., 582 U.S. 383

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HOLDINGS: [1]-In the context of a regulatory takings claim, courts had to consider a number of factors in determining the denominator, including the treatment of the land under state and local law, the physical characteristics of the land, and the prospective value of the regulated land, and the endeavor was to determine whether reasonable expectations about property ownership would have led a landowner to anticipate that his holdings would be treated as one parcel or separate tracts; [2]-Under the appropriate multi-factor standard, the landowners' property should have been evaluated as a single parcel consisting of two lots together for purposes of the takings analysis because state law had merged the lots, the physical characteristics supported treatment as a unified parcel, and the parcels could not be sold or built upon separately.