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Western property rights victory. (Insider Report).(Brief Article)
After more than a decade of trials and tribulations in the federal regulatory maze and the courts, the Wayne Hage family of Nevada has scored a major victory for ranchers and for property rights. The U.S. Court of Federal Claims issued a landmark decision on January 29th, in which Senior Judge Loren A. Smith rejected the position of the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) and Bureau of Land Management (BLM) that ranchers have no property rights on their grazing allotments. Moreover, Judge Smith ruled that government regulation making it impossible to exercise these rights amounts to a "taking" and necessitates that government justly compensate the property owners.
The Hages had filed the takings claim against the USFS and BLM in 1991 after excessive regulations and physical takings of their property had run them out of business. "When you combine everything the court has ruled that we own in this final decision, it is clear that the key property rights ...
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...ranch without compensation to the owner, Wayne Hage. The result was the filing in 1991 of...again, THE NEW AMERICAN visits with Wayne Hage about the current status of the case...reclassify your ranch as public land? Wayne Hage: The answer to that question really...
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- Magazine article from: The New American Jasper, William F. October 30, 2006 700+ words
...four months the death of her husband, Wayne Hage, a well-known fellow champion of property rights and constitutional government. Over the...married legendary Nevada rancher and author Wayne Hage, a longtime friend, whose lovely wife...
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- Newspaper article from: Greeley Tribune (Greeley, CO) December 13, 2005 700+ words
...Foundation of the West. Wayne Hage, along with his wife...being watched closely by property rights advocates and opponents...one of the most important property rights actions in the courts...the government took his property rights in Nevada. The judge...
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- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times Roberts, Paul Craig February 22, 1996 700+ words
...male environmental criminals. Corrupt Forest Service officials, like the ones who stole Nevada rancher Wayne Hage's property rights, would find themselves called out by the occupant of the Oval Office. Of course, Pat has his downside...
- EDITORIAL: Hage won't be last of sagebrush rebels.
- Newspaper article from: Valley Morning Star (Harlingen, TX) June 9, 2006 700+ words
Jun. 9--Wayne Hage wasn't a name that...of grazing rights and property rights in the West, waged...staunch defender of property rights and critic of federal...some Americans in the Wayne Hage mold, who aren't...
- EDITORIAL: Sagebrush rebel.
- Newspaper article from: Appeal-Democrat (Marysville, CA) June 10, 2006 700+ words
...10--June 10, 2006 - Wayne Hage wasn't a name that resonated...defense of grazing rights and property rights in the West, waged a long...equally staunch defender of property rights and critic of federal land...are some Americans in the Wayne Hage mold who aren't going ...
- Storm over rangelands.(Commentary)(Editorials)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times February 19, 1996 700+ words
Nevada rancher Wayne Hage knew he had a problem...for the loss of his property rights in a case with sweeping...the legal origins of property rights to the likes of water...their own prior vested property rights. Regardless of the...
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- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) March 6, 1993 700+ words
...Historically, a taking was the property-rights equivalent of the pottery...does not even own the land? Wayne Hage, an ex-rancher from Tonopah...bright pair of San Francisco property-rights lawyers, Thomas Hookano and...
Source: HighBeam Research, Western property rights victory. (Insider Report).(Brief Article)