Webb's Fabulous Pharmacies, Inc. v. Beckwith

449 U.S. 155·1980

What the Court Decided

The Court held that a state may not use its own definition of property to avoid the requirements of the Fifth Amendment's Takings Clause, rejecting the idea that the government can simply legislate away a protected property interest.

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Cited In

Pung v. Isabella County

2025 Term · 25-95

Stands for the principle that a state cannot define what constitutes 'property' in a way that effectively reads the Takings Clause out of the Constitution—the anti-circularity rule central to petitioner's argument.