United States Tenth Circuit

The Tucker and Little Tucker Acts "impliedly forbid" federal courts from ordering declaratory or injunctive relief, at least in the form of specific performance, for contract claims against the government, and the Administrative Procedure Act thus does not waive sovereign immunity for such claims.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/24/2006
• Published 02/24/2006

Judges

• STEPHEN H. ANDERSON, Circuit Judge., Before TACHA, Chief Circuit Judge, ANDERSON and HARTZ, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Marc Ryan Stimpert (Karen Budd-Falen and Erin Sass-Eastman on the briefs), Budd-Falen Law Offices, LLC, Cheyenne, WY, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Robert J. Lundman, United States Department of Justice, Environment & Natural Resources Division, Washington, D.C. (Matthew J. McKeown, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Washington, D.C.;  Todd S. Aagaard, United States Department of Justice, Environment & Natural Resources Division, Washington, D.C.;   and Kristina Clark, Of Counsel, Office of the Solicitor, Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C.;   with him on the brief), for Defendants-Appellees.