By Terri Jo Neff | Cochise County Record
FAIRBANK- A mediation session held in June may finally bring an end to a decade-long federal court battle involving several Cochise County property owners who sued the U.S. government for interfering with private property rights linked to railroad easements issued under the General Railroad Right-of-Way Act of 1875.
The landowners filed a complaint with the U.S. Court of Federal Claims in June 2007 demanding payment from the government for violating the “Takings Clause” of the Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution which reads in part “no person shall be deprived of… life, liberty or property…without just compensation.”
