Welty v. United States

ELR Citation: 49 ELR 20105
No(s). 2018-1558 (Fed. Cir. Jun 14, 2019)

The Federal Circuit affirmed a dismissal of landowners' lawsuit against the government for flooding that resulted when a federal land conservation program induced an adjacent landowner to build and maintain a levee. The landowners argued that the flooding, which rendered their land unfit for cultiva...