The US Supreme Court agreed to hear a case challenging when someone can seek compensation in federal court for property that’s damaged by a state public works project.
In an order on Friday, the justices said they would review an appeal from landowners in Texas who sued the state after a highway project that was done to create an evacuation route caused their properties to flood during Hurricane Harvey in August 2017 and Tropical Storm Imelda in September 2019.
The landowners argued the flooding of their lands worked as a government taking under Fifth Amendment and they should be paid ...
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