Court of Federal Claims | Federal Circuit

So the federal government tells you that the device you are making is not a “machine gun” and you go ahead and start to manufacture them.  Times change, though, and three years later “upon further review” (as they say in the NFL), the government tells you that the device is is an illegal “machine gun”…

In D & D Land Holdings v. United States, No. 06-877L (filed under seal: June 25, 2008, reissued: June 30, 2008), the Court of Federal Claims held the landowner’s claim that the Border Patrol’s activities on its land resulted in a compensable Fifth Amendment taking was not barred by the six-year statute of limitations…

The speed of information on the internet sure is fast.  I was preparing a post summarizing the recent Court of Federal Claims decision in Estate of Hage v. United States,No. 91-1470L (May 6, 2008), which awarded Nevadaproperty owners several million dollars in just compensation for the taking of theirvested water rights by the federal…

The property owner has filed a Petition for Rehearing and Suggestion for Rehearing En Banc in AmeriSource Corp. v. United States,No. 07-1521 (Fed. Cir. May 1, 2008). 

In that case, the Federal Circuit held that when an innocent party’sproperty is seized for use in a criminal prosecution but never used as evidence, no FifthAmendment…

In Richard A. Forsgren Revocable Living Family Preservation Trust v. United States, No. 07-14L (May 12, 2008), the Court of Federal Claims (the court which has exclusive jurisdiction over inverse condemnation claims against the federal government in excess of $10,000) held that a property owner who alleged the government caused its land to flood…