by Nancie Marzulla | Mar 31, 2020
On March 31, 1992, Mingo Logan and United Affiliates entered into a lease, which allowed Mingo Logan to operate a coal mine (known as Spruce No. 1) in West Virginia. In 2007, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers issued a Section 404 wetland permit to Mingo Logan. Under...
by Nancie Marzulla | Mar 17, 2020
Fairholme Funds, Inc. v. United States is the lead case of more than a dozen suits filed by shareholders of Freddie and Fannie stock alleging Fifth Amendment taking without just compensation and illegal exaction of an estimated $124 billion over the amounts originally...
by Nancie Marzulla | Feb 28, 2020
It happens: The Federal Government takes private property but fails to pay just compensation. Although government has the right of eminent domain, just compensation must be paid to property owners. So what do you do when the Government takes private property but fails...
by Nancie Marzulla | Feb 13, 2020
The Sagamore Hill National Historic Site in Oyster Bay, New York is the former home of the twenty-sixth President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt. Sagamore Hill is now maintained by the National Park Service. In March 2019, Looks Great Services, Inc. put in a...
by Nancie Marzulla | Jan 14, 2020
They’re coming for your water! If you want to hear more about your water rights and taking, please join me and my esteemed colleagues, Hertha Lund and Charles McFarland, next Thursday when we will be discussing the increased pressure for governmental entities to take...
by Nancie Marzulla | Dec 3, 2019
At 11:30 p.m. on September 13, 2013, in Larimer County, Colorado, in response to a slow-moving cold front dropping record amounts of rainfall, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation opened the flood gates of the Olympus Dam, which Reclamation controls and operates as part of...
