In April 2020, as the COVID outbreak was unfolding, Walton County, Florida, closed all beaches--public and private. Did this ordinance, as applied to private beaches, constitute a taking of private ...

Co-blogger Jonathan Adler recently posted about Alford v. Walton County, an important new 11th Circuit ruling holding that a local ordinance barring property owners from accessing their beachfront ...

Walton County is asking a federal appeals court to reconsider a decision that would lead to compensation for beachfront property owners who were prevented from using privately owned parts of the beach ...