Legal Opinion
Hearts Bluff Game Ranch, Inc. v. State
Texas Supreme Court
Decided August 31, 2012No. 10-0491PublishedCited by 168 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Wainwright
in which Chief Justice JEFFERSON, Justice GREEN, Justice JOHNSON, Justice GUZMAN, and Justice LEHRMANN joined.
The judiciary has a historic duty to uphold constitutional protections of individual liberties.1 But the individual must present a claim countenanced by law. It is not prudent to sanction a seventy million dollar demand against the State of Texas for an alleged taking of a property interest when 1) as acknowledged by all parties, the United States Army Corps of Engineers, not the State of Texas, exercised its exclusive authority to deny petitioner’s application for a federal…
2Cases cited53 opinions
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- Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal CouncilSupreme Court of the United States · 1992
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3Cited by168 opinions
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- City of Lorena, Texas v. Bmtp Holdings, L.P.Texas Supreme Court · 2013
- City of Austin v. Liberty Mutual InsuranceCourt of Appeals of Texas · 2014
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