Army Corps of Engineers Must Pay Arkansas $5.8 Million for Flooding of Wildlife Management Area Climate Change Implications? : CRS Legal Sidebar

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service. American Law Division

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Circuit courts.

Floods.

Judge-made law.

Lumber.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Contained In:

ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection

Place of Publication:

[United States] [publisher not identified] 2014

Summary:

Examines Federal circuit court ruling in Arkansas Game and Fish Comm'n volume United States , which held that Federal Government must pay Arkansas $5.8 million (plus interest from 2000) for a Fifth Amendment taking of State-owned timber caused by Army Corps of Engineers releases of water from one of its dams which resulted in temporary flooding. Considers implications of Federal Circuit Court and Supreme Court rulings for other cases involving asserted takings of property rights based on the Corps of Engineers intentional releases from its levees, as well as more frequent extreme precipitation events resulting from climate change

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Microfiche version Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service. American Law Division. Army Corps of Engineers Must Pay Arkansas $5.8 Million for Flooding of Wildlife Management Area

Publisher Number:

CRS-2014-AML-0060

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