Court Opinion

ID: 9450061
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 16:33:55.135727+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:32:07.967557
License: Public Domain

CHAMBERS, Circuit Judge
(concur-
ring).
In their petition for rehearing, appellants challenge the statement in our opinion which is as follows:
“Appellants finally contend that if 33 U.S.C. § 702c bars a suit for damage caused by negligent federal planning of a flood control project, then the section is unconstitutional as causing a taking without just compensation, proscribed by the Fifth Amendment.”
They say:
“Appellants’ contention with respect to the constitutional question was that Section 702c, if construed as an immunity statute, would be unconstitutional as a denial of due process of law as it would destroy a right without providing a reasonable substitute.”
Whichever way we state it, due process of law or taking without just compensation, we are in the Fifth Amendment and we end up the same place. And that is, short of a taking, historically on a tort one has had to have the consent of the federal government to sue it.