National Food & Beverage Co. v. United States

OPINION AND ORDER

LETTOW, Judge.

This post-trial decision concerns a taking by the United States of property for public use without providing just compensation to the owner. The fundamental facts of the ease are not disputed. In 2006 and 2007, the United States Army Corps of Engineers (“Corps” or “the government”) employed a contractor to remove more than 380,000 cubic yards of clay from the land of National Food & Beverage Co., Inc. (“National Food” or “plaintiff’), without compensating National Food for the removed clay. The Corps used the clay to repair levees in southern Louisiana, which…