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Under cover of overruling ‘only’ a single decision, today’s opinion smashes a hundred-plus years of legal rulings to smithereens.
— Justice Elena Kagan, expressing her concern in a 19-page dissent in the 5-4 decision of Knick v. Township of Scott, that the Supreme Court has done away with yet another precedent this term, this time in a takings case.
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