“In Amicus Brief, The Buckeye Institute Supports Property Owners Whose Land Was ‘Taken’ by Federal Government”
The Buckeye Institute filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Ideker Farms v. The United States, supporting farmers along the Missouri River whose property has been lost due to federal government-caused flooding. “The federal government encouraged the plaintiffs to farm this land and now government-caused flooding is making farming impossible. This clearly meets the definition of a taking under the Fifth Amendment, and—as the lower court ruled—the landowners are due financial compensation for their loss.”