Legal Opinion
Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority v. United States
United States Court of Federal Claims
Decided July 1, 2003No. 96-119LPublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
ALLEGRA, Judge.
Before the court are the remnants of a hotly contested takings action, in which this court previously ruled that, under the Fifth Amendment, the Washington Metropolitan Transit Authority (WMATA or plaintiff) is entitled to just compensation for defendant’s physical taking of a portion of the land that underlain a former trolley line. See Wash. Metro. Transit Auth. v. United States, 54 Fed.Cl. 20 (2002). That compensation amounted to $862,681.60. Id. A subsequent cost petition filed by WMATA has raised a thorny issue regarding its entitlement to attorney’s fees on account…
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