National Food & Beverage Co. v. United States

OPINION AND ORDER

LETTOW, Judge.

This ease concerns an alleged taking by the government of property for public use without providing just compensation to the property owner. After levees were damaged by Hurricane Katrina, the United States Army Corps of Engineers (“Corps”) needed relatively impermeable clay to effect repairs to the levees. The Corps identified suitable deposits of clay in Mississippi and southern Louisiana, and, respecting one such deposit in southern Louisiana, entered into an agreement with Plaquemines Parish to use the Parish’s authority under state law to commandeer access…