Number: RS20473
Title: COURT RULINGS DURING 1998 ON CONSTITUTIONAL TAKINGS CLAIMS AGAINST THE UNITED STATES
Authors: Robert Meltz, American Law Division 
Abstract: In light of congressional activity on property rights bills during 1998, CRS extends its practice of compiling reported court decisions, involving federal actions and/or federal statutes, that resolved Fifth Amendment "property rights takings" challenges on the merits. Decisions in 1998 meeting this criteria numbered 33, of which three found a taking. The federal programs implicated in this year's decisions echo the broad diversity of such programs customarily involved in takings litigation against the United States. Areas generating multiple takings decisions in 1998 were telecommunications access, the fighting or intentional setting of forest fires, Indian tribal land rights, bankruptcy law, response to failed S&Ls, and the federal wetlands permitting program.
Pages: 6
Date: Updated February 17, 2000