Alves v. United States

ELR Citation: ELR 20577
No(s). 97-5042 (Fed. Cir. Jan 12, 1998)

The court holds that the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM's) failure to prevent livestock from trespassing on public lands over which a rancher held grazing permits does not constitute a Fifth Amendment taking or a breach of contract. The case arose out of BLM's failure to fully enforce an injunctio...