09-13-2012, 08:01 PM
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REED: Wayne Hage and the rout of property rights: An American tragedy
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It didn’t make headlines, but it should have. A July 26 ruling released to little fanfare by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., was a landmark blow to property rights — at least as originally conceived by our Founding Fathers.
The judges reversed a lower court’s order that the federal government pay $4.4 million to the family of Nevada rancher Wayne Hage for depriving Hage of water rights.
By the time of that 2008 decision, Hage had already been dead for two years.
“The founders would have been horrified,” Sacramento-based Pacific Legal Foundation attorney Timothy M. Sandefur said. “They and their children — the pioneers and settlers of the West — believed that the American landscape was for the people to use, to live on, develop, earn, make a living, explore, and enjoy. But today’s bureaucracy sees land as the government’s private stash, off-limits to mere human beings, to be permanently locked away from the grubby hands of the people.”
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Complete article here: http://watchdog.org/56194/nv-wayne-h...rican-tragedy/
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