Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature written by a bunch of people at the Institute for Justice.
Friends, the Supreme Court has long held that the Fifth Amendment's Just Compensation clause is "designed to bar Government from forcing some people alone to bear public burdens which, in all fairness and justice, should be borne by the public as a whole." And yet last year the Fifth Circuit ruled that the owners of a fourth-generation family farm in Texas must bear alone the burdens of a public highway project that caused catastrophic flooding. Farm Journal Magazine has the latest on a pending IJ cert petition.
