 The owners' response has been that this is no remedy because it can take many years to get relief from the courts, and even when land owners win in court they remain uncompensated for potentially huge losses incurred during the legal battle, such as loss of the property by foreclosure.This doctrinal confrontation raged until 1987 when the U.S. Supreme Court decided "First English Evangelical Lutheran Church v. County of Los Angeles", in which it held that a taking of property was no less a taking when it was effected by non-physical means; i.e., by regulations that denied land owners use of their property, even when it did so on a temporary basis.Thus, whether physical or regulatory, a taking requires the payment of just compensation to the owner of the taken property.