WASHINGTON — The son of a man who filmed the assassination of President John F. Kennedy secured a victory in his Fifth Amendment takings claim against the federal government. The U.S. Court of Federal Claims agreed with the man that the government’s enactment of the JFK Records Act transferred possession of the film to the government without just compensation, and ruled that the statute of limitations has not expired on his claims.
Read the ruling here.
Read our previous coverage of this legal saga over the Nix film here.
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