Voyageur National Park Condemnation Blight

National Park Service acquisition agent acknowledges paying only 20% of Fair Market Value to "willing sellers" – while landowners who hold out for eminent domain proceedings get seven times as much "just compensation"

"Over the years, condemnation suits were brought in the United States District Court in Minnesota. The awards to land owners in those cases actually tried exceeded the government’s appraisals and offers to purchase by from 271 percent to 1,403 percent, the average excess of award over appraisal and offer being 785 percent. Thereafter, all of the outstanding condemnation suits, except for these inverse condemnation cases and two or three anticipated declarations of taking, were settled."

Althaus, et al. v United States, 7 Cl. Ct. 688, at 691 (US Cl. Ct. 1985) (Emphasis added).

Althaus, et al. v. United States, 7 Cl. Ct. 688 (U.S. Cl. Ct., 1985)

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