Anna F. Nordhus Family Trust v. United States

After Union Pacific abandoned its railroad easement across an 8.13-mile Kansas corridor, the Federal Surface Transportation Board authorized converting the corridor to a recreational trail under the Trails Act's railbanking provision, preventing the easement from reverting to the underlying Kansas landowners (plaintiffs) as Kansas law would otherwise require; the landowners sued the United States (defendant), arguing this blocked reversion constituted an uncompensated Fifth Amendment taking.