CANBY, Circuit Judge:
The primary question before us is whether the Eleventh Amendment precludes federal jurisdiction over an action seeking compensation under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments for a taking of property by a State.
The factual setting of this case is simple enough; the procedural context is more complicated. Seven Up Pete Venture ("the Venture") and other plaintiffs acquired leases of Montana state property for the purpose of mining gold...
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