John McClung v. Colonel Courtney Paul

MURPHY, Circuit Judge.

John and Kim McClung bought a vacation home next to Greers Ferry Lake and received a permit to maintain a boat dock and stone steps on the public land between their property and the lake. The lake and shoreline area is federal government property managed by the Army Corps of Engineers. The Corps twice sanctioned the McClungs for violating permit conditions and regulations, first for causing herbicide to be sprayed on public property and then for removing brush from the previously sprayed land. In its final sanctions order the Corps revoked the McClungs’ permit for the…