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Hage takings case victory
e-mail from Stewards of the Range ^ | 6/6/2008 | Margaret Byfield

Posted on 06/06/2008 10:55:27 PM PDT by marsh2

The compensatory ruling from the Court of Claims in the Fifth Amendment Takings case of grazer Wayne Hage was finaly handed down after 17 years. Hage's heirs were awarded $4,220,431.20 plus interest from time of Takings plus attorney costs. Property takings on so called federal land included: improvements of springs and wells; water use rights; roads; fences; irrigation ditches. Takings for cattle impoundment and taking of the "entire ranch" were denied.

The 18 page ruling should be posted on the Stewards of the Range website soon. https://www.stewards.us/


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: grazing; hage; landgrab; propertyrights; stewards; takings
Finaly, justice is served.
1 posted on 06/06/2008 10:55:27 PM PDT by marsh2
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To: marsh2

Just about exactly two years too late for Wayne Hage himself, but his heirs will be happy.


2 posted on 06/06/2008 11:13:41 PM PDT by Gondring (I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
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To: Gondring

I had the pleasure of meeting both Wayne Hage and Helen Chenoweth in 2005. Two real patriots who put everything on the line for what was and is right.

As you said, two years too late for both, but the organization that they helped build has been a powerful defender of property rights, especially here in TX.


3 posted on 06/06/2008 11:27:32 PM PDT by SecAmndmt (Arm yourselves!)
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To: SierraWasp; Carry_Okie

of interest?


4 posted on 06/07/2008 12:18:41 AM PDT by marsh2
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To: marsh2

BTT


5 posted on 06/07/2008 1:18:03 AM PDT by Positive (Nothing is sadder than to see a beautiful theory murdered by a gang of brutal facts.)
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To: Gondring
"two years too late"

I thought he had won the case several years before his death, and this ruling was about the monetary damages.

As I recall, he traveled and lectured to other lease holders on perfecting their water rights.

6 posted on 06/07/2008 5:13:29 AM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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To: marsh2

Big victory for individual rights and our rights in our private property.

This case can be used against the criminal fascist bureaucrats when they try to steal property. That fascist abomination called the EPA still exists and we’ll need rulings like this to fight these Marxists.


7 posted on 06/07/2008 6:17:45 AM PDT by sergeantdave (Governments hate armed citizens more than armed criminals)
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To: Ben Ficklin
I thought he had won the case several years before his death, and this ruling was about the monetary damages.

Yes.

8 posted on 06/07/2008 7:18:43 AM PDT by Gondring (I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
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To: marsh2

Bruce Babbitt is spinning like a top.


9 posted on 06/07/2008 8:25:39 AM PDT by B4Ranch (Having custody of a loaded weapon does not arm you. The skill to use the weapon is what arms a man.)
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To: B4Ranch; marsh2; Carry_Okie; Issaquahking; AuntB; Grampa Dave; ElkGroveDan; calcowgirl
"Bruce Babbitt is spinning like a top."

Well, so is his former deputy Secretary of Interior, our current Lt. Governor, none other than John Garamendi!!!

Even so, justice delayed IS JUSTICE DENIED!!! (17 years delay is criminal)

Now the political pendulum in this once great country seems to be reversing back toward where it was at the bi-centenial with Nixon having just signed the ESA, followed by another socialist idiot like Carter!!!

I certainly hope that after I'm dead and gone, the pendulum is reversing once again for the benefit of my heirs!!!

10 posted on 06/07/2008 8:49:41 AM PDT by SierraWasp (Liberalism's prime directives are: taxation, regulation, litigation, legislation, agravation, etc..)
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To: marsh2; SierraWasp

“Finaly, justice is served.”

Too bad the Hage’s weren’t here to see it. Typical though. In 1891 the government took the Cherokee outlet in Oklahoma (Indian Territory) (land mass the size of Belgium) from the Cherokees. In 1961 the Court of appeals paid them for it. Seldom does justice serve those who were actually wronged.


11 posted on 06/07/2008 10:52:27 AM PDT by AuntB (Vote Obama! ..........Because ya can't blame 'the man' when you are the 'man'.... Wanda Sikes)
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To: Ben Ficklin

The case establishing the private split estate rights on the so called “public” or federal lands was settled a few years ago. This is the monetization and Fifth Amendment takings claim decision. It means that they are not property rights in name only. It means that USFS and BLM decisions reagrding grazers that ignore the existence of these valuable property rights and the right to their continued use and enjoyment brings substantial monetary penalties upon the federal government.

When environmentalists/back packers/elk and wild horse devotees/ and bicyclists pressure federal land management agencies to remove livestock grazing, (as they are currently doing in California,) the USFS can’t just buckle and walk away. There are big monetary consequences for ignoring the longstanding property rights of many of these grazers.


12 posted on 06/07/2008 11:18:22 AM PDT by marsh2
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To: SierraWasp
Great news against the socialists who dogged Wayne for years. Wayne and helen are both smiling today.

For additional information click here.
13 posted on 06/07/2008 12:30:53 PM PDT by Issaquahking ("What did you do for America today?")
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