RODOWSKY, Judge.
Maryland Constitution, Art. III, § 40 prohibits the General Assembly from enacting any law "authorizing private property, to be taken for public use, without just compensation...." Taking private property for public use without compensation is also barred by the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution. This case involves whether, by operating a hazardous waste disposal facility on its own land, the State of Maryland has taken adjacent...
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