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Government's noxious nuisance defense defeated after citrus trees destroyed

May 13, 2010 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

Author: Jim Burling A Florida Court of Appeals held on Wednesday, in Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services v. Toby Borgoff, that the deliberate destruction of over 100,000 healthy citrus trees constituted a compensable taking. The trees had been destroyed because other nearby trees were infected with citrus canker – a disease that dis ...