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UNITED STATES v. 320.0 ACRES OF LAND, MORE OR LESS

No. 76-2775.

605 F.2d 762 (1979)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. 320.0 ACRES OF LAND, MORE OR LESS IN the COUNTY OF MONROE, STATE OF FLORIDA, and Salvatore R. Ciccone, et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

October 31, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William G. Earle, Miami, Fla., for defendants-appellants.

Peter R. Taft, Asst. Atty. Gen., Edmund B. Clark, Atty., Peter R. Steenland, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before BROWN, Chief Judge, THORNBERRY and CLARK, Circuit Judges.

JOHN R. BROWN, Chief Judge:

The Just Compensation Clause of the Fifth Amendment, which provides that private property shall not be taken without just compensation, is one of the most basic constitutional guarantees that the rights of the individual will not be unfairly sacrificed in the pursuit of the common weal. In this eminent domain case, appellant landowners claim that this constitutional guarantee has been breached...

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