Me. Justice Black, dissenting. The Fifth Amendment provides that “private property” shall not “be taken for public use without just compensation.” The Court holds today that the Government has “taken” respondents’ property by repeatedly flying Army bombers directly above respondents’ land at a height of eighty-three feet where the light and noise from these planes caused respondents to lose sleep and their chic…
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