ELR Citation: ELR 20008
No(s). 05-5047 (Fed. Cir. Jan 9, 2006)

The court affirms the dismissal of a rancher's Fifth Amendment claim against the United States for the taking of his water rights on federally owned grazing land within the Lewis and Clark National Forest. The rancher alleged that by allowing another permittee to graze on the land at issue, the Unit...