United States v. Burton

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating that government’s blocking access to an island is a taking
• explaining it is \well established” that \a deliberate cutoff of access by all feasible routes is a taking”
• case involving the possible denial of access through wetlands to plaintiff’s upland property not subject to the Corps’ jurisdiction
• “[I]f his access to his block on all four sides is cut off, that is a taking, and if authorized is compensable under the just compensation clause.”
• “[I]f his access to his block on all four sides is cut off, that is a taking, and if authorized is compensa- ble under the just compensation clause.”
• blocking access to an island

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).