No. 20-1099

Gadsden Industrial Park, LLC v. United States

Lower Court: Federal Circuit
Docketed: 2021-02-10
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Tags: 5th-amendment court-of-federal-claims due-process federal-circuit fifth-amendment inverse-condemnation just-compensation property-rights takings takings-clause tucker-act
Key Terms:
Environmental SocialSecurity FifthAmendment Takings JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference: 2021-06-17
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the Court should fill a statutory and jurisprudential void in Tucker Act inverse condemnation 'takings' law

Question Presented (from Petition)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED I. Whether this Court should fill a statutory and jurisprudential void in Tucker Act inverse condemnation “takings” law to resolve the obvious constitutional dilemma that confronted the Court of Federal Claims below, where the court found that the Environmental Protection Agency took Petitioner’s property and sold some of it for $13.5 million, made no offer of compensation whatsoever, forced Petitioner to incur a decade of expense litigating against the government’s ferocious effort to avoid payment, and at trial the court found a compensable per se taking, but the court simply set aside the constitutional requirement of just compensation under the Fifth Amendment’s Takings Clause and awarded nothing, on the basis that Petitioner’s evidence failed to prove a precise value of the property with “reasonable certainty”. I. Whether the Federal Circuit committed clear constitutional error where it ignored the conduct constituting the taking of Petitioner’s slag, impermissibly set aside the trial court’s fact findings underlying its conclusion that a taking of slag had occurred, and improperly substituted its own de novo findings of fact that themselves were contrary to the record, all in order to disturb the Court of Federal Claims' determination that the government did commit a compensable taking of Petitioner's slag and violated the Takings Clause by failing to pay for it? (108312961) i

Docket Entries

2021-06-21
Petition DENIED.
2021-06-01
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/17/2021.
2021-06-01
Reply of petitioner Gadsden Industrial Park, LLC filed. (Distributed)
2021-05-12
Brief of respondent United States in opposition filed.
2021-04-14
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is further extended to and including May 12, 2021.
2021-04-12
Motion to extend the time to file a response from April 12, 2021 to May 12, 2021, submitted to The Clerk.
2021-02-24
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including April 12, 2021.
2021-02-23
Motion to extend the time to file a response from March 12, 2021 to April 12, 2021, submitted to The Clerk.
2020-02-05
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due March 12, 2021)

Attorneys

Gadsden Industrial Park, LLC
Avrum LevicoffThe Levicoff Law Firm, Petitioner
Avrum LevicoffThe Levicoff Law Firm, Petitioner
United States
Elizabeth B. PrelogarActing Solicitor General, Respondent
Elizabeth B. PrelogarActing Solicitor General, Respondent