Cook v. Watts

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• suggesting that other costs beyond purchase price enter into the calculation of the property owner’s basis or investment in the property
• holding claim ripe even though landowner had not applied for certain state permits
• no need for landowner to seek required state permits when it was evident that Corps’ denial of § 404 permit was final
• Corps would not consider applications for permit to fill wetlands covering more than three years
• vacated on other grounds 18 F.3d 1560 (1994), cert. denied — U.S. —, 115 S.Ct. 898, 130 L.Ed.2d 783 (1995). See also Florida Rock Indus., Inc. v. United States, 791 F.2d 893, 896 (1986
• 95 percent reduction in value, less than half of basis remained

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