Legal Opinion
Banks v. United States
United States Court of Federal Claims
Decided September 28, 2007No. Nos. 99-4451L, 99-4453L to 99-4459L, 99-44510L to 99-44512L, 00-365L, 00-379L to 00-401L, 05-1353L, 05-1381L, 060-72LPublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION1
HEWITT, Judge.
I. Procedural Background
The St. Joseph River enters Lake Michigan between St. Joseph, Michigan, and Benton Harbor, Michigan. Motion to Partially Dismiss and Memorandum in Support Thereof (Motion or Def.’s Mot.), Feb. 26, 2007, 5.2 In the 1830s, the United States Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) re-constructed the mouth of the St. Joseph River and began constructing harbor jetties3 that jutted generally westward into Lake Michigan in order to accommodate commercial shipping traversing the St. Joseph River into Lake Michigan. Id. The Corps lengthened the jetties…
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