United States Moves To Certify Interlocutory Appeal, Seeks Stay In MR-GO Dispute

(November 18, 2015, 12:05 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. government on Oct. 30 moved for the U.S. Court of Federal Claims to certify for interlocutory appeal its May 1 ruling that held that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' construction, expansions, operation and failure to maintain a 77-mile-long navigational channel caused subsequent storm surge that was exacerbated during Hurricane Katrina and other storms and caused flooding on property that effected a temporary taking under the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (St. Bernard Parish Government v. The United States, No. 05-1119, Fed. Clms.)....