United States v. Green Acres Enterprises, Inc., W.R. Jenkins, Sr.

WOLLMAN, Circuit Judge.

Green Acres Enterprises, Inc. and W.K. and M. Earline Jenkins (collectively the landowners) appeal the district court’s grant of summary judgment and injunctive relief for the United States (the government), which barred them from repairing levees on their land and enjoined them from denying government agents from entering their land to inspect the levees and surrounding areas. We reverse and remand with directions to vacate the injunction and to grant judgment to the landowners.

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In 1976 and 1977, the government bought easements on two farms giving the government the…