JERRY E. SMITH, Circuit Judge:
Louisiana property owners affected by flood-plain ordinances passed by the Plaquemines Parish Commission Council filed this class action alleging an unconstitutional taking. They challenge the imposition, without compensation, of severe flood control regulations which are said "effectively [to] sound a death-knell for these communities, the ancestry of which predates our Constitution." Because the parish was required by Federal Emergency...
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