Real Estate & Property Law

New Category: Court of Federal Claims | Federal Circuit

By Robert Thomas

Administrative note: I've created a new category for indexing posts, "Court of Federal Claims (CFC) | Federal Circuit."  The decisions by these courts are worth following because the CFC is the Article I court that has exclusive nationwide jurisdiction over regulatory takings and inverse condemnation claims against the federal government seeking monetary damages in excess of $10,000.  The predecessor court to the CFC was vested with jurisdiction to render money judgments against the United States following Abraham Lincoln's statement to Congress:

It is as much the duty of Government to render prompt justice against itself, in favor of citizens, as it is to administer the same between private individuals.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reviews the CFC. 

Here's a few past inversecondemnation.com posts about CFC/CAFC decisions:

• Claim For Flooding Not Barred By Statute of Limitations
• Inverse Condemnation And The Border Patrol
• Wait, I Thought The Police Power And The Public Use Clause Were "Coterminous"
• Land Use Round Up
• Court of Federal Claims Takings Round Up

Full post as published by inversecondemnation on May 24, 2008 (boomark / email).