government-taking
18 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-203 | Johanna McGee, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Jacqueline McGee, et al. v. Alger County Treasurer, et al. | Michigan | 2025-08-19 | Rehearing | Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) | claims-process due-process government-taking just-compensation property-rights takings-clause | When government takes and sells private property to collect a tax debt, it must return the surplus proceeds from the sale to the former property owner… |
| 24-815 | Franciscan Alliance, Inc., et al. v. Indiana | Indiana | 2025-01-31 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-law eminent-domain government-taking just-compensation land-use property-rights | When the government undisputedly takes a real property right, is a landowner entitled to just compensation from the imposition of a project as a whole… |
| 24-775 | Southern California Edison Company, et al. v. Orange County Transportation Authority | Ninth Circuit | 2025-01-22 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | fifth-amendment government-taking just-compensation public-transit takings-clause utility-relocation | Whether the Fifth Amendment's Takings Clause guarantees just compensation when the government forces a privately owned utility to relocate its facilit… |
| 24-331 | CBS MN Properties, LLC v. Hennepin County, Minnesota | Minnesota | 2024-09-24 | Denied | Response Waived | eminent-domain fifth-amendment government-taking just-compensation property-rights real-property | A county unquestionably used real property that denied access to private property and allowed the private property owner to restore the denied access … |
| 23A805 | Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. v. Valancourt Books, LLC | District of Columbia | 2024-03-01 | Presumed Complete | copyright-deposit copyright-protection fifth-amendment government-taking just-compensation library-of-congress | Question not identified. | |
| 23-707 | Yossi Govrin, et al. v. City of Santa Monica, California, et al. | California | 2023-12-29 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equitable-tolling estoppel government-taking property-rights standing substantive-due-process takings | Whether a party with close ties to the government should be allowed to proceed with litigating its claims based on equitable tolling and/or estoppel g… |
| 22-100 | Fairholme Funds, Inc., et al. v. United States, et al. | Federal Circuit | 2022-08-02 | Denied | due-process government-taking just-compensation property-rights public-benefit shareholder-rights shareholders-rights standing takings-clause | 1. If the United States causes a company to transfer to the United States for the public benefit private shareholders' rights incident to their owners… | |
| 22-99 | Andrew T. Barrett v. United States, et al. | Federal Circuit | 2022-08-02 | Denied | circuit-split due-process fannie-mae fifth-amendment freddie-mac government-expropriation government-taking net-worth-sweep property-rights statutory-interpretation takings | In 2012, the Government expropriated the net worth of private companies, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, by arrogating for itself the Companies' earnings … | |
| 22-98 | Joseph Cacciapalle v. United States, et al. | Federal Circuit | 2022-08-02 | Denied | dividend-appropriation fannie-mae federal-circuit freddie-mac government-taking property-rights shareholder-interests shareholder-rights takings takings-clause | In September 2008, the Federal Housing Finance Agency ("FHFA") placed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac into conservatorship, and on behalf of each entity en… | |
| 22-53 | Aaron G. Filler, et al. v. United States | Federal Circuit | 2022-07-20 | Denied | Response Waived | assignment-of-claims assignment-of-claims-act civil-procedure fifth-amendment government-taking just-compensation patent patent-infringement patent-rights takings | For a Patent infringed by the United States, where Patent rights are divided between two related parties – one having the right to sue and the other h… |
| 22-52 | Ariyan Incorporated, dba Discount Corner, et al. v. Sewerage & Water Board of New Orleans, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2022-07-20 | Denied | Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 14th-amendment 5th-amendment due-process eminent-domain fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment government-taking inverse-condemnation just-compensation property-rights takings | A fundamental element of just compensation is "certain payment of the compensation without unreasonable delay." Bragg v. Weaver, 251 U.S. 57, 62 (1919… |
| 21-249 | Probir Kumar Bondyopadhyay v. United States | Federal Circuit | 2021-08-20 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process federal-claims government-taking invention-compensation national-defense patent patent-rights standing takings | The question before the Honorable U.S. Supreme Court is on the recognition and affirmation of the Jeffersonian claim of an original creature of the U.… |
| 20-806 | Mary Swartzlander v. United States | Federal Circuit | 2020-12-14 | Denied | Response Waived | accrual erosion flooding flooding-event government-action government-taking land-erosion limitations-period property-rights statute-of-limitations takings | When does a taking claim accrue against the government based on erosion caused by government action, where the erosion for many years was present only… |
| 20-5532 | Larry Golden v. United States | Federal Circuit | 2020-08-27 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | administrative-review fifth-amendment government-taking government-use implied-in-fact-contract intellectual-property just-compensation takings | If the Government: on the Executive level accepts a person's intellectual property, passes it on to a government agency to be used with the public wit… |
| 19-1335 | Timothy James Dummer v. California Contractors State License Board, et al. | California | 2020-06-03 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | administrative-law certified-mail due-process government-taking hearing mail-service notice procedural-rights tax-notice tax-notices | In 1970, this Court ruled in Goldberg v. Kelly, 397 U.S. 254, that due process requires proper notice and a hearing before a professional license may … |
| 19-1123 | Leo Lech, et al. v. Chief John A. Jackson, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2020-03-16 | Denied | Amici (3) | 5th-amendment civil-rights due-process eminent-domain fifth-amendment government-taking just-compensation police-power property-rights takings | Using explosives and a battering ram attached to an armored personnel carrier, the Greenwood Village Police Department intentionally destroyed Petitio… |
| 19-607 | Woodcrest Homes, Inc. v. Carousel Farms Metropolitan District | Colorado | 2019-11-12 | Denied | Amici (1) | 5th-amendment constitutional-interpretation due-process eminent-domain fifth-amendment government-taking private-benefit property-rights public-use takings | Is the Fifth Amendment's restriction of eminent domain to "public use[s]" satisfied even if a condemnation is undertaken "for the purpose of conferrin… |
| 19-258 | Richard Lewis Katzin, et al. v. United States | Federal Circuit | 2019-08-28 | Denied | Response Waived | 5th-amendment deed-dispute due-process fifth-amendment government-action government-taking just-compensation land-ownership property-rights remand takings takings-clause title-claim unsalable-property | 1. Whether the Government can claim title to privately owned land and actively work to make that property unsaleable, without triggering the Fifth Ame… |