Legal Opinion
United States v. 14.02 Acres of Land More or Less
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided June 24, 2008No. 05-17347PublishedCited by 39 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CANBY, Circuit Judge:
Pursuant to a 2001 order of the Secretary of Energy, the Western Area Power Administration (‘WAPA”) selected certain land estates in the western portion of the San Joaquin Valley in California, where it planned to construct a highvoltage transmission line. The United States began condemnation proceedings in the district court on behalf of WAPA, seeking transmission easements on the lands selected by WAPA. Sawyer and a few other individual owners of condemned property (collectively “Sawyer”) challenged the government’s exercise of its power of eminent domain, claiming that…
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