The Koontz family doesn’t even own its plot of land in Central Florida anymore, but its nearly two-decade old fight to allow a sliver of it to be developed without having to pay for off-site mitigation now resides with the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court.

The family’s attorney has called the government’s action extortion for trying to force the family to pay for off-site mitigation when it wanted to develop part of its 14.9 acres at the intersection of two busy state highways.