Temporary Takings and the Statute of Limitations

Document Type

Article

Publication Title

American Law Institute - American Bar Association

Journal Abbreviation

A.L.I. - A.B.A.

Abstract

In this outline, Professor Huffman reviews the purpose and implementation of the six-year statute of limitations imposed by the Tucker Act for Fifth Amendment takings claims brought against the federal government. The author argues that, because of the inherent differences between direct and inverse condemnation on the one hand and regulatory takings on the other, cutting off regulatory takings claims at a fixed point in time does not serve the purposes of the statute of limitations. The Federal Circuit's decision in Fallini v. United States, 56 F.3d 1378 (Fed. Cir. 1995), is cited as an example of the need to bring statute of limitations doctrine into line with temporary takings doctrine, which recognizes the ongoing and indeterminate nature of a regulatory taking.

Publication Date

2001

Comments

This outline is from the American Law Institute - American Bar Association Continuing Legal Education Course of Study, May 3, 2001. Pages are not numbered.

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