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In The
Supreme Court of the United States
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QUESTION PRESENTED
Whether the “self-executing” Just Compensation
Clause abrogates a State’s Eleventh Amendment
immunity, allowing a property owner to sue the State
for a taking of property.
ii
RULE 14.1(b)(iii)
STATEMENT OF RELATED CASES
TABLE OF CONTENTS
JURISDICTION.......................................................... 1
INTRODUCTION ....................................................... 2
I. FACTS .............................................................. 3
CONCLUSION.......................................................... 36
APPENDIX
TABLE OF AUTHORITIES
Cases
Alden v. Maine,
527 U.S. 706 (1999) ............................ 13-15, 23, 26
Arnett v. Myers,
281 F.3d 552 (6th Cir. 2002) .......................... 34-35
Beck v. Cal.,
479 F. Supp. 392 (C.D. Cal. 1979) ................. 18, 21
Bragg v. Carter,
367 So. 2d 165 (Miss. 1979) ................................. 10
Cory v. White,
457 U.S. 85 (1982) ............................................... 14
Edelman v. Jordan,
415 U.S. 651 (1974) ................................. 14, 16, 25
Ex parte Young,
209 U.S. 123 (1908) ....................................... 11, 14
Fowler v. Guerin,
899 F.3d 1112 (9th Cir. 2018) ............................. 34
Fowler v. Guerin,
918 F.3d 644 (9th Cir. 2019) ............................... 34
Hans v. Louisiana,
134 U.S. 1 (1890) ................................................. 13
Hise v. Tennessee,
968 S.W.2d 852 (Tenn. Ct. App. 1997)................ 19
McMurtray v. Holladay,
11 F.3d 499 (5th Cir. 1993) ................................. 21
Medellin v. Texas,
552 U.S. 491 (2008) ............................................. 15
Reich v. Collins,
513 U.S. 106 (1994) ............................................. 26
Williams v. Walley,
295 So. 2d 286 (Miss. 1974) ................................. 20
Zinn v. Wisconsin,
334 N.W.2d 67 (Wis. 1983) .................................. 20
Constitution
Statutes
Other Authorities
OPINIONS BELOW
JURISDICTION
INTRODUCTION
I.
FACTS
1 Miss. Code Ann. § 65-1-51 states that MTC “may acquire and
II.
JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS
between $100 and $500. Id. at B-5; see also, Bay Point,
201 So. 3d at 1054-55.
I.
II.
CONCLUSION
The Court should grant the Petition.
DATED: December 2019.
Respectfully submitted,
CHARLES S. LAMBERT, JR. J. DAVID BREEMER
Law Offices of Charles S. Counsel of Record
Lambert, Jr., LLC Pacific Legal Foundation
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Telephone: (225) 367-1073 jbreemer@pacificlegal.org
Chip@grandlawfirm.com
BRIAN T. HODGES
Pacific Legal Foundation
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Telephone: (916) 419-7111
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Counsel for Petitioner