( March 4, 2024, 11:27 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D. C. — The United States’ acquisition of trust land in Oklahoma on behalf of the Cherokee Nation did not amount to a taking of an adjacent property because the property owner failed to allege that the United States was affirmatively involved in constructing a hotel and casino on the trust land, which allegedly caused flooding of the adjacent property, a Federal Circuit U. S. Court of Appeals panel found in affirming a U. S. Federal Claims Court judgment. . . .