{"id":420,"date":"2018-03-28T19:08:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T19:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/?p=420"},"modified":"2023-12-15T21:57:48","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T21:57:48","slug":"new-orleans-owners-prevail-on-a-takings-claim-against-the-us-army-corps-of-engineers-for-taking-their-property-without-just-compensation-by-the-negligent-design-of-a-navigational-channel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/2018\/03\/28\/new-orleans-owners-prevail-on-a-takings-claim-against-the-us-army-corps-of-engineers-for-taking-their-property-without-just-compensation-by-the-negligent-design-of-a-navigational-channel\/","title":{"rendered":"New Orleans owners prevail on a takings claim against the US Army Corps of Engineers for taking their property without just compensation by the negligent design of a navigational channel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is an older case now but worthy of being noted. The U.S. Court of Federal Claims held that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers effected a taking of property without just compensation when it designed and maintained a navigational channel known as the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet (MRGO) in a manner that significantly increased storm surge and flooding on owners\u2019 properties during Hurricane Katrina.\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/ecf.cofc.uscourts.gov\/cgi-bin\/show_public_doc?2005cv1119-274-0\" target=\"_blank\">St Bernard Parish Gov&#8217;t v. United States<\/a>, 121 Fed Cl 687 (2015).<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"taxonomy-category wp-block-post-terms\"><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/category\/takings\/\" rel=\"tag\">Takings<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an older case now but worthy of being noted. The U.S. Court of Federal Claims held that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers effected a taking of property without just compensation when it designed and maintained a navigational channel known as the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet (MRGO) in a manner that significantly increased storm surge and flooding on owners\u2019 properties during Hurricane Katrina.\u00a0St Bernard Parish Gov&#8217;t v. United States, 121 Fed Cl 687 (2015).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-takings"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"jsinger","author_link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/author\/jsinger\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}