Legal Opinion
Fred E. Langenegger, Steven W. Langenegger v. The United States
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided March 12, 1985No. Appeal 84-1420PublishedCited by 72 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
NICHOLS, Senior Circuit Judge.
This case, an appeal from a grant of summary judgment and dismissal of a complaint, primarily presents a novel, narrow issue: whether the United States is respon sible under the Just Compensation Clause of the Fifth Amendment for the expropriation of a United States citizen’s property in a foreign land when the taking was mandated by a foreign sovereign’s legislation passed at the prompting of the United States, and hemispheric stability is an ultimate benefit hoped for by the United States, but the immediate benefit inures to natives of the expropriating nation.…
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