Cooley v. United States

ELR Citation: ELR 20161
No(s). 01-5071 (Fed. Cir. Apr 1, 2003)

The court affirms a lower court decision holding a landowners' takings claim against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (the Corps) ripe, but reverses the lower court's decision that the taking was permanent. The Corps' denial of the landowners' fill permit application was a final decision rendering t...