Legal Opinion
Kirby Forest Industries, Inc. v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided May 21, 1984No. 82-1994PublishedCited by 501 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Marshall
Title 40 U. S. C. § 257, in conjunction with Rule 71A of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, prescribes a procedure pursuant to which the United States may appropriate privately owned land by eminent domain. The central issue in this case is whether the manner in which the value of the land is determined and paid to its owner under that procedure comports with the requirement, embodied in the Fifth Amendment, that private property not be taken for public use without just compensation.
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The United States customarily employs one of three methods when it appropriates private land for a…
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