which would affect the purchase price. II. RULINGS OF LAW A. Applicable Law The Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment prohibits the government from taking private property for public use without just compensation. Palazzolo v. Rhode Island, 533 U.S. 606, 121 S.Ct. 2448, 150 L.Ed.2d 592 (2001). Even a minimal “permanent physical occupation of real property” requires compensation under the Clause. Id. (citing Loretto v. Teleprompter Manhattan CATV Corp., 458 U.S. 419, 427, 102 S.Ct. 3164, 73 L.Ed.2d 868 (1982)). The Takings Clause requires that just compensation be paid “to put the owner of condemned property ‘in as good a position pecuniarily as if his property had not been taken.’ ” United States v. 564.54 Acres of Land, 441 U.S. 506, 510, 99 S Land, 780 F.Supp. 82, 85 (D.R.I.1991) (<HOLDING>). But cf. Southern Natural Gas Co. v. Land,
holding that a defendants sentence is controlled by the law in effect at the time he committed the offense holding that state law controlled damage issues holding that possession of listed chemical with intent to manufacture controlled substance is controlled substance offense holding that mens rea required for possession of a controlled substance is knowledge that defendant possessed a controlled substance holding that tort law and the law of punitive damages are not controlled by the contract choice of law provision