On February 13, 2013, Hearts Bluff Game Ranch (the "Ranch") filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court for review of a Texas Supreme Court decision that denied a takings claim brought by the Ranch against the State of Texas and the Texas Water Development Board.

In its petition, the Ranch argues that the Texas Supreme Court failed to perform the fact-specific analysis the U.S. Supreme Court has found to be necessary in government takings cases. The petition is filed in the Supreme Court of the United States as Hearts Bluff Game Ranch Inc. v. The State of Texas and the Texas Water Development Board, Case No. 12-1015. Our September 2012 article on the Texas Supreme Court decision in this case is available here.