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Interesting
Helen was right, God Rest her soul!
"We're aware of Friday's court decision and our agency is now considering the implications of this ruling and carefully weighing options," Monnig said.
So now they'll print more money and delay and appeal and delay and delay and ...
... hope to wait for the deaths of the heirs?
Nice government we got here, no?
Now why in the h$ll do we have to read it in a North Carolina newspaper
Are you sure this isn’t Scrappleface?
I mean... a court actually ruling in
favor of a big, rich, landowner seems
pretty unfathomable.
“I am,” former Governor Ronald Reagan proudly proclaimed in 1980, “a Sagebrush Rebel.” Reagan’s common cause with westerners besieged by a host of federal agencies came as no surprise.
Forty-four percent of California, which Reagan governed for eight years, is managed by those agencies; thus, he saw hubris, hyperbole, and humor whenever a federal employee declared, “I’m from the federal government and I’m here to help you.”
It is communism that holds that the rich have no rights.
The founding fathers put great faith in the rich as the saviors of the people.
The best of us provide a living for the rest of us...there is NO other way.
-—I hope Dick Carver is smiling somewhere-—
The government demanded that he maintain the ditches using nothing more than hand tools
Dirty Filthy Eco-Nazis
Bump for the sane judge that heard the case.
I’m a proud member of the Sagebrush Rebellion since 1978.
I still think the Intermountain West should abdicate bump.
From Liberty Matters:
Epic Victory for Hage Family
After 17 years in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, Wayne and Jean Hage’s takings case has been decided – and it is a great victory for private property rights in America!
The Hages claimed that the federal government (U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management) had taken their western ranch, a combination of private base property and federal grazing allotments, through physical and regulatory takings. It is a landmark case because it is the first of its kind to achieve clarity as to what property rights ranchers own on federal grazing allotments and clarifies that if certain property rights are taken through grazing and environmental regulations, the government must pay just compensation.
The court decided that the Hages owned the water rights, ditch rights of ways, and the range improvements on the federal lands. It also found that although the government has the right to authorize and cancel grazing permits, it does not have the right to prevent the ranchers from accessing their water rights on federal lands. The court ruled that a regulatory and physical taking occurred and, therefore, the government owes the estates of Wayne and Jean Hage just compensation, interest for the 17 years, and attorney’s fees.
Stewards of the Range, a membership driven, non-profit organization, assisted the Hage case with funding. “Without the Stewards members, this landmark decision would not be written in case law,” stated Margaret Byfield, executive director of Stewards. “The critical precedent and deterrent is now set that when land management agencies attempt to regulate away private property, they risk invoking a taking for which they must pay just compensation under the Fifth Amendment of the US Constitution.”
I have been a proud member of the Sagebrush Rebellion/Win Back the West movement since 1990.
Will the government appeal the jury’s decision? Also... why did it take 17 years for this decision?
At last, something for the right side.