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` Cite as: 582 U. S. ____ (2017)
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`Statement of GORSUCH, J.
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`SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
`BAY POINT PROPERTIES, INC., FKA BP PROPERTIES,
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`INC. v. MISSISSIPPI TRANSPORTATION
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`COMMISSION, ET AL.
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`ON PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME
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`COURT OF MISSISSIPPI
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`No. 16–1077. Decided June 26, 2017
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`The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied and the
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` pending motions for leave to file briefs as amici curiae are
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`granted.
` Statement of JUSTICE GORSUCH, with whom JUSTICE
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`THOMAS joins, respecting the denial of certiorari.
`When a State negotiates an easement limited to one
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`purpose but later uses the land for an entirely different
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`purpose, can the State limit, by operation of statute, the
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`compensation it must pay for that new taking? The Mis-
`sissippi Supreme Court held that it may do just that. But
`this decision seems difficult to square with the teachings
`of this Court’s cases holding that legislatures generally
`cannot limit the compensation due under the Takings
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`Clause of the Constitution. See Monongahela Navi. Co. v.
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`United States, 148 U. S. 312, 327 (1893). Tension appears
`to exist, too, between the decision here and decisions of the
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`Federal Circuit. See, e.g., Toews v. United States, 376
`F. 3d 1371, 1376 (2004). And the matter is one of general
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`importance as well, for many states have adopted statutes
`like Mississippi’s and the question presented implicates a
`fundamental feature of the compact between citizen and
`State. Given all this, these are questions the Court ought
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`take up at its next opportunity.
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