Legal Opinion
Emmett Adolph, Sr. v. Federal Emergency Management Agency of the United States
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided September 13, 1988No. 87-3196PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JERRY E. SMITH, Circuit Judge:
Louisiana property owners affected by flood-plain ordinances passed by the Plaquemines Parish Commission Council filed this class action alleging an unconstitutional taking. They challenge the imposition, without compensation, of severe flood control regulations which are said “effectively [to] sound a death-knell for these communities, the ancestry of which predates our Constitution.” Because the parish was required by Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) regulations to adopt such a stringent building code in order to participate in the National Flood…
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