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Old Jun 16, 2007 | 9:15 pm
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Originally Posted by Landing Gear
That's nice to know, but the government is wins anyway under the doctrine of sovereign immunity.
But the federal government waives its sovereign immunity in certain types of cases and provides a remedy, so it's important to distinguish between a situation where there was a taking and where there was never a legal claim in the first place, regardless of sovereign immunity.
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