Legal Opinion
Alliance of Descendants of Texas Land Grants v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided October 6, 1994No. Nos. 93-5140, 93-5141PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RADER, Circuit Judge.
The United States Court of Federal Claims held that the statute of limitations bars the takings claims of Blanca Rose Villarreal Aguirre and the Alliance of Descendants of Texas Land Grants. Alliance of Descendants of Texas Land Grants v. United States, 27 Fed.Cl. 837 (1993) (Alliance). Because 28 U.S.C. § 2501 (1988 & Supp. V 1993) applies to these claims, this court affirms.
BACKGROUND
The claimants in this case are the heirs and descendants of Mexican nationals who received land grants, in what is now Texas, from Spain or Mexico before 1836. Thus, the claimants’…
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