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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-498 Monaghan Farms, Inc. v. City and County of Denver, Colorado Colorado 2024-11-01 Denied constitutional-taking due-process eminent-domain kelo-doctrine property-rights public-use Whether the conversion of land originally condemned for airport purposes to private commercial use violates the constitutional public use requirement …
24-162 Jennifer Sykes, et al. v. Office of the California State Controller, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-08-15 Denied Response Waived fifth-amendment just-compensation public-use takings-clause temporary-taking unclaimed-property Does the Ninth Circuit's decision that California's Unclaimed Property Law does not require the payment of just compensation for the temporary taking …
23-1363 Vicki Baker v. City of McKinney, Texas Fifth Circuit 2024-07-02 Denied Amici (5)Relisted (4) constitutional-law eminent-domain government-action just-compensation police-power property-rights public-use takings-clause Whether the Takings Clause applies when the government takes property for a compelling public use pursuant to its police power
23-1301 Ben Brinkmann, et al. v. Town of Southold, New York Second Circuit 2024-06-13 Denied Amici (5)Relisted (3) bad-faith bad-faith-taking constitutional-protection pretext property-rights public-use section-1983 state-federal-split takings-clause Whether the Takings Clause is violated when a property is taken for a public amenity as a pretext for defeating an owner's plans for another use
23A1085 Alexander Cote, et al. v. Office of the California State Controller, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-06-05 Presumed Complete fifth-amendment just-compensation property-rights public-use takings-clause unclaimed-property Whether the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment requires states to pay just compensation to owners of unclaimed property held and used for public pu…
23-632 Warbird Adventures, Inc. v. Federal Aviation Administration Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-12 Denied Response Waived compensation-or-hire faa flight-instruction limited-category-aircraft public-use warbirds Is the FAA's reading of 14-CFR-§-91.315 reasonable?
22-6371 Michael Jarrow v. Ashly Nunnery Fifth Circuit 2022-12-21 Denied IFP fifth-amendment just-compensation physical-appropriation private-property public-use takings-clause Whether the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment requires the government to pay just compensation when it physically appropriates private property fo…
21-7818 Kenneth Jay Moore v. Washington Washington 2022-05-10 Denied IFP eminent-domain fifth-amendment just-compensation property-rights public-use takings-clause Whether the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment prohibits the government from requiring a property owner to dedicate a portion of their property for…
20-1476 Lavern Behm v. Montana-Dakota Utilities Co. North Dakota 2021-04-21 Denied Response Waived due-process eminent-domain kelo-v-new-london private-corporation private-property property-rights public-use taking-clause Is it lawful for a private corporation to take private property through eminent domain based solely on its own determination of public use?
20-1214 Fred J. Eychaner v. City of Chicago, Illinois Illinois 2021-03-03 Denied Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) blight due-process eminent-domain future-blight kelo-precedent kelo-v-city-of-new-london pretext property-rights public-use public-use-clause takings takings-clause Is the possibility of future blight a permissible basis for a government to take property in an unblighted area and give it to a private party for pri…
20-5723 Demetrius Calhoun v. Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-16 Denied Relisted (2)IFP fifth-amendment just-compensation physical-appropriation private-property public-use takings-clause Whether the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment requires the government to pay just compensation when it physically appropriates private property fo…
20-5512 James L. Miller v. Scott S. Harris, Clerk, Supreme Court of the United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-08-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP fifth-amendment just-compensation physical-appropriation private-property public-use takings-clause Whether the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment requires the government to pay just compensation when it physically appropriates private property fo…
19-7169 Daniel Eric Cobble v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights commercial-value due-process fifth-amendment just-compensation patent physical-appropriation public-use standing takings takings-clause Whether the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment requires the government to pay just compensation when it physically appropriates private property fo…
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…
19-447 Keith Puntenney, et al. v. Iowa Utilities Board, et al. Iowa 2019-10-03 Denied Response Waived common-carrier eminent-domain fifth-amendment incidental-benefits kelo-precedent kelo-v-city-of-new-london public-purpose public-use takings takings-clause Does a state's exercise of eminent domain satisfy the 'public use' requirement of the Fifth Amendment's Takings Clause if the only benefits experience…
19-197 Lavern Behm v. Montana-Dakota Utilities Co. North Dakota 2019-08-15 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) due-process eminent-domain kelo-v-new-london private-corporation property-rights public-use taking-clause Is it a violation of due process and the taking clause for the state to allow a private corporation to take private property through eminent domain ba…
18-1163 Richard Hutchings, et al. v. Ameren Transmission Company of Illinois Illinois 2019-03-07 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived administrative-hearing administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process eminent-domain fourteenth-amendment notice property-rights public-use quasi-judicial takings utility-siting Lack of notice to affected landowners for power line siting proceedings violating due process