Amended Class Suit Filed Against Federal Government Over Hurricane Flooding

(January 31, 2018, 8:11 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Property owners in the Houston area whose homes were built within the “maximum design pool” of two federal reservoirs and flooded due to the rainfall during Hurricane Harvey and the resulting flood pool created behind and upstream of the two dams filed a master amended class complaint against the federal government on Jan. 16 in the U.S. District Court of Federal Claims, alleging that the government’s actions constitute a taking under the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and seeking compensation for that taking (In re Upstream Addicks and Barker [Texas] Flood-Control Reservoirs, No. 17-9001, Fed. Clms.)....