Judge sides with rancher’s estate
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From Times Wire Reports
A federal judge has awarded more than $4.2 million to the estate of Wayne Hage, one of the leaders of the so-called Sagebrush Rebellion.
The judge ruled that the U.S. Forest Service had committed a constitutional “taking” of Hage’s water rights during a decades-long dispute over livestock grazing on federal land.
The judge also ordered the government to pay back interest, which the late rancher’s lawyer estimated at another $4.4 million.
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