United States Tenth Circuit

In a Federal Tort Claims Act suit for purported wrongful destruction of a stockpile of mineral ore on a mining claim, the limitations period commenced to run when the U.S. Bureau of Land Management destroyed the stockpile, not when plaintiffs discovered the damage.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/11/2003
• Published 02/11/2003

Judges

• HARTZ, Circuit Judge., Before HARTZ, ALDISERT  and PORFILIO, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Stephen Kent Christiansen (Thomas W. Clawson, with him on the briefs), of Van Cott, Bagley, Cornwall & McCarthy, Salt Lake City, UT, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Steve Frank, Attorney, Appellate Staff, Civil Division, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. (Robert D. McCallum, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, Paul M. Warner, United States Attorney, Salt Lake City, UH, and Leonard Schaitman, Attorney, Appellate Staff, Civil Division, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., with him on the brief), for Defendant-Appellee.