It has been more than a decade since a Middlefield-based company first tried to get the necessary approval from Durham’s town land use boards to develop a 10-acre parcel it owns. Arrigoni Enterprises wants to construct industrial buildings on the land. Today, it remains rocky and forested, as the company hasn’t had any success in getting the approvals it needs.

Now, Arrigoni Enterprises is hoping the U.S. Supreme Court will consider its case. The company has petitioned for a writ of certiorari, asserting that its situation goes to the heart of the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits the taking of private property for public use without just compensation.

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