HORNISH v. KING COUNTY

No. 16-35486.

899 F.3d 680 (2018)

Thomas E. HORNISH and Suzanne J. Hornish Joint Living Trust; Tracy Neighbors; Barbara Neighbors; Arul Menezes; Lucretia Vanderwende; Herbert Moore; Elynne Moore; Eugene Morel; Elizabeth Morel; Lake Sammamish 4257 LLC, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. KING COUNTY, a home rule charter county, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed August 3, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven Wald (argued), Stewart Wald & McCulley LLC, St. Louis, Missouri; Thomas S. Stewart and Elizabeth Gepford McCulley , Stewart Wald & McCulley LLC, Kansas City, Missouri; for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

David J. Hackett (argued), King County Prosecuting Attorney's Office, Seattle, Washington; Mallory L.B. Satre and Emily J. Harris , Corr Cronin Michelson Baumgardner Fogg & Moore LLP, Seattle, Washington; for Defendant-Appellee.

Patrick J. Schneider , Philip E. Paine , and Beth A. Clark , Foster Pepper PLLC, Seattle, Washington, for Amicus Curise BNSF Railway Company.

James E. Breitenbucher , Riddell Williams P.S., Seattle, Washington, for Amicus Curiae Puget Sound Energy Inc. Mark C. Zebrowski , Morrison & Foerster LLP, San Diego, California; David P. Thoreson , Morrison & Foerster LLP, San Francisco, California; Andrea Foster , General Counsel, Rails to Trails Conservancy Inc., Washington, D.C.; for Amicus Curiae Rails to Trails Conservancy.

Richard M. Stephens , Stephens & Klinge LLP, Bellevue, Washington, for Amicus Curiae Sammamish Home Owners.

Before: MILAN D. SMITH, JR. and PAUL J. WATFORD, Circuit Judges, and DOUGLAS L. RAYES, District Judge.


OPINION

After the Surface Transportation Board (the STB) "railbanked" the portions of the Eastside Rail Corridor (the Corridor) adjacent to or bisecting Plaintiffs-Appellants' residential lots, pursuant to the National Trails System Act Amendments of 1983 (the Trails...

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