Legal Opinion
Mount v. United States
United States Court of Claims
Decided June 23, 1983No. 709-81LPublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
MILLER, Judge:
Plaintiffs seek $100,000 as just compensation under the fifth amendment to the Constitution for the taking of land by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM or the agency) of the United States Department of Interior. The matter is before the court on defendant’s motion for summary judgment.
The complaint alleges the following: Plaintiffs, husband and wife, jointly own a tract of land in Kern County, California. In August 1976, the BLM erected a chain link fence surrounding approximately 21,-000 acres of land in that county, including plaintiffs’ land, for the stated purpose of…
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3Cited by4 opinions
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