Nearly 300 acres in rural Pennsylvania where Flight 93 crashed on September 11, 2001, have been taken by eminent domain, but the rights to the coal underneath the land are still a point of contention.

A federal judge has sided with the U.S. government this week, holding that Svonavec Inc. did not have a right to mine the coal spreading across the great majority of the land, with the exception of an 8-acre parcel agreed to by the government at the time of the taking. Svonavec had owned the land before it was taken by the government for a memorial park in 2009 — the issue has been in court since then.

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