ELR Citation: ELR 20600
No(s). 94-5081 (Fed. Cir. Feb 15, 1995)

The court holds that the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement's (OSM's) issuance of a Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act (SMCRA) §521 cessation order to a coal mining company was not an uncompensated taking of private property in violation of the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. ...