Legal Opinion
United States v. Little Lake Misere Land Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 18, 1973No. 71-1459PublishedCited by 294 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Burger
We granted the writ in this case to consider whether state law may retroactively abrogate the terms of written agreements made by the United States when it acquires land for public purposes explicitly authorized by Congress.
The United States initiated this litigation in 1969 in the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, seeking to quiet title to two adjacent parcels of land in Cameron Parish, Louisiana, which the Government had acquired pursuant to the Migratory Bird Conservation Act, 45 Stat. 1222,16 U. S. C. § 715 et seq., as part of the Lacassine Wildlife…
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