the eminent-domain takings are government actions that occupy (or today, regulate) private property. Plaintiffs posit that the former are subject to sovereign immunity doctrines, the latter are not. Sovereign immunity is the immunity that, by the accident of English history that underlies American law, shields the government, absent consent to be sued, from legal liability for all sorts of wrongs, including torts and contract wrongs. Based on the distinction between common-law takings and eminent-domain takings, plaintiffs conclude that the bar of the statute of limitations properly applies only to cases involving the government’s waiver of sovereign immunity, the common-law takings cases. It is true that sovereign immunity does not protect the government from a Fifth Amendment Ta 996) (<HOLDING>); Loveladies Harbor, Inc. v. United States, 28
holding that a termination of a government contract does not constitute a taking of the plaintiffs property without just compensation or without due process of law holding that a purely financial exaction does not constitute a taking holding that a transfer of job duties can constitute an adverse employment action holding that overflights can constitute a taking holding that a cause of action for an unconstitutional taking accrues at the time the taking occurs