United States v. 416.81 Acres of Land, Etc., and Mercantile National Bank of Indiana, as Trustee

These appeals, companion to No. 73-2104 decided this day, concern the condemnation of two tracts of land owned by members of the Crumpacker family within the area of the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. Three of the issues in No. 73-2104 are identical to ones raised here and our affirmance in that case controls the disposition here: (1) the propriety of the district court’s striking of the landowners’ defenses; (2) the propriety of the district court’s striking of the landowners’ interrogatories related to those defenses; and (3) the constitutionality of the legislation under which the…