CHEVY CHASE LAND CO. v. U.S.

Misc. No. 24, Sept. Term, 1998.

733 A.2d 1055 (1999)

355 Md. 110

CHEVY CHASE LAND COMPANY et al. v. UNITED STATES et al.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

July 29, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Whayne S. Quin (Paul J. Kiernan, Wilkes, Artis, Hedrick & Lane, Chtd., for Columbia Country Club, all on brief), Washington, DC, for appellants.

Sean H. Donahue, Lois M. Schiffer, Asst. Atty. Gen.; Andrew M. Eschen, all on brief, Washington, DC, for Environment and Natural Resources Div., Dept. of Justice.

Henri F. Rush, Evelyn G. Kitay, Office of the General Counsel, all on brief, Washington, DC, for Surface Transp. Bd.

Diane R. Schwartz-Jones, Associate County Atty. (Charles W. Thompson, Jr., County Atty., Marc P. Hansen, Chief, Div. of General Counsel, all on brief), Montgomery County, for defendant-appellee Montgomery County.

Andrea C. Ferster, Cornish F. Hitchcock, Richard B. Nettler (Robins Kaplan Miller & Ciresi, LLP), Washington, DC, amicus curiae for Rails-to-Trails Conservancy.

Argued before BELL, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, CHASANOW, RAKER, WILNER and CATHELL, JJ.


CHASANOW, Judge.

This case comes to us by a certified order pursuant to Maryland Code (1974, 1998 Repl.Vol.), Courts & Judicial Proceedings Article, §§ 12-603 to 12-609 from the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. That court seeks our resolution of the parties' state law property disputes so that it may determine whether an uncompensated taking of private property has occurred in violation...

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