Legal Opinion
Lucien Taliaferro and Priscilla Taliaferro v. Henrik E. Stafseth, Director of the Michigan Department of State Highways
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided February 11, 1972No. 71-1329PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PHILLIPS, Chief Judge.
The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1968 1 provides for relocation payments not to exceed $5,000 to certain owners of real estate displaced by federal aid highway construction projects. The payment permitted by this statute is in addition to compensation for damages. The Act became effective August 23,1968.
The sole issue on this appeal is whether this statute should be applied retroactively to a displaced owner of real estate whose title was divested before the enactment of the 1968 Act but who continued to occupy the condemned property after the effective date of the new…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- United States v. Estate of DonnellySupreme Court of the United States · 1970
- Rushton v. SchramCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1944
3Cited by8 opinions
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- Matter of FlaminiUnited States Bankruptcy Court, E.D. Michigan · 1982
- Paul Jensen and Ruby Jensen v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1981
- Bourne v. SchlesingerDistrict Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 1977
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