Fideicomiso de la Tierra del Caño Martín Peña v. Fortuño

ELR Citation: ELR 20133
No(s). 09-2569 (1st Cir. Apr 28, 2010)

The First Circuit dismissed a land trust's claim that a statute revoking its title to lands in a canal area amounted to a taking and violated its due process rights. The statute amended Law 489, which among other things, created the land trust and transferred to the trust title to certain lands that...