Willner v. Frey

MEMORANDUM OPINION

ELLIS, District Judge.

Plaintiffs are landowners who lost a portion of their property in a state adverse possession litigation and now seek to recover that property by claiming in this case that Virginia’s law of adverse possession, as applied to them in the earlier state case, violated the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment, and the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment. Plaintiffs’ effort to recover that property in this suit fails for a variety of reasons.

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This dispute began over a piece of land located in Mason Neck, Virginia on the banks…