Yuba Goldfields, Inc. And Placer Service Corp. v. The United States

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• finding that the government can effect a physical taking of property rights through the acts and statements of its officials, regardless of whether those acts were authorized by Congress
• “The fact-intensive nature of just compensation jurisprudence to date, however disorienting in other contexts, argues against precipitous grants of summary judgment.”
• “[W]hat counts [for a takings claim] is not what [the] government said it was doing, or what it later says its intent was, or whether it may have used the language of a proprietor. What counts is what the government did.” (emphasis in original

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