Casitas Municipal Water District v. United States, 708 F.3d 1340 (Fed. Cir. 2013)

(plaintiff operated river project owned by defendant's Bureau of Reclamation; project provides water to residential, industrial and agricultural users north of Los Angeles; defendant imposed operating criteria for water project designed to protect endangered species (steelhead trout), and plaintiff claimed that such restrictions were unconstitutional taking of its private property without just compensation in violation of 5th Amendment; U.S. Court of Federal Claims dismissed complaint on basis that taking claim not ripe; on appeal, court held that required construction of fish ladder at cost of $9.5 million was regulatory taking; loss of water not loss of any property rights in water because property right limited by state law and plaintiff did not show any loss of beneficial use of water; Court of Federal Claims decision affirmed).