Case Summary The greater sage-grouse is not on the Endangered Species Act list. Nevertheless, the government is using the bird to illegally restrict mining in ten states and has recommended…
Case Summary Issue: Whether federal agencies can alter the scope of a property interest granted by Congress by redefining the scope of the grant or imposing a permitting requirement on…
Case Summary Issue: Whether federal agencies can alter the scope of a property interest granted by Congress by redefining the scope of the grant or imposing a permitting requirement on…
Case Summary Issue: Whether the Public Use Clause of the Fifth Amendment prohibits a taking that the government claims is for economic development, when the evidence shows it is actually…
Case Summary Issue: Whether Alaska may claim title to lands underlying non-navigable streams that were conveyed by the federal government into private ownership prior to Statehood? Plaintiff: Lacano Investments, LLC,…
Case Summary Issue: Whether the federal government may revoke a long-term permit to use government land with impunity when the owner is in full compliance with all the terms and…
Case Summary Issue: Whether a State may effectuate an uncompensated land-grab by claiming that a river is generally navigable as a whole without engaging in a section-by-section analysis of the…
Case Summary Issue: Whether federal land management agencies may, by regulation, establish a scheme that results in the automatic forfeiture of valuable property rights? Plaintiff: Donald, Judith and Christopher Mullikin…
Case Summary Issue: Whether an owner of private property surrounded by National Forest lands has the right to improve an existing road to its property in order to access the…
Case Summary Issue: Whether the federal government may seize private property without paying just compensation and whether the federal government may ignore reversionary property interests of landowners in its operation…