Feb. 20, 2018
US to pay $30M to iron ore owners for eminent domain
The U.S. government will have to pay a steep price to acquire a patch of land in the Mojave Desert that sits above California’s last viable source of iron ore.
LOS ANGELES -- The U.S. government must pay a steep price to acquire a patch of land in the Mojave Desert that sits above California's last viable source of iron ore.
A federal jury verdict Thursday found that the government must pay $30.2 million to the owners of 1,003 acres in San Bernardino County's Johnson Valley. The jury's verdict was almost six times higher than the government's appraisal of the land, which it is acquiring t...
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