The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled Thursday on a decades-long legal battle over a takings claim that received national attention and was a cornerstone of the Sagebrush Rebellion states' rights movement.The Federal Circuit vacated the Court of Federal Claims' award of monetary damages for a regulatory taking of water rights and compensation for range improvements in the case of The Estate of E. Wayne Hage v. United States, and reversed the finding that compensation was due for a temporary physical taking of water rights, in this 20-year-old case in which a rancher alleged a taking …