by Nancie Marzulla | May 30, 2023
The Supreme Court has just issued two major decisions in cases signaling this Court’s strong backing of property rights: Tyler v. Hennenpin County, Minnesota, No. 22-166, and Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency, No. 21-454. Nancie Marzulla worked with the...
by Nancie Marzulla | Feb 25, 2023
Marzulla Law is pleased to represent a national coalition of commercial fisherman who are challenging the placement of a massive windmill project off the shore of New England. This challenge in federal district court has been brought under the Administrative...
by Nancie Marzulla | Dec 1, 2022
April 6, 2022 was a windy day in the Las Dispensas area of the Santa Fe National Forest. But the U.S. National Forest Service moved forward anyway with its plan to set a prescribed burn for the area. The inevitable results were that the Hermit’s Peak/Calf Canyon...
by Nancie Marzulla | Jun 16, 2022
To address the routine flooding that occurs in the Mississippi Delta, in the 1940s the federal government built the Yazoo Backwater Project—a levee system designed to protect portions of Issaquena County, Misssissippi, near the confluence of the Mississippi and Yazoo...
by Nancie Marzulla | Jun 7, 2022
Following the devastating flooding of hundreds of privately owned properties in an area on the western edge of Houston, Buffalo Bayou, caused by flood control actions of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in response to Hurricane/Tropical Storm Harvey, the flooded...
by Nancie Marzulla | Jan 18, 2022
There are two elements to the taking test employed by the U.S. Court of Federal Claims: (1) whether the plaintiff has a cognizable Fifth Amendment property interest and (2) whether that property interest has been taken. The Court recently examined the first prong...