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Court of Claims· 1/31/1991

Leeth v. United States

Citations

  • 22 Cl. Ct. 467
  • 1991 U.S. Claims LEXIS 30
  • 1991 WL 9754

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  • holding that a takings plaintiff must have some level of knowledge that a taking has occurred for the cause to accrue
  • “While a lay person merely through observation can identify that a backwater effect is occurring at a particular point, the source of that effect cannot be identified by that lay person because it would ‘look the same’ regardless of its cause.”

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Judges: Robinson

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