United States Ninth Circuit

Plaintiffs' non-contractual claims against the CIA, for allegedly reneging on promises to provide resettling assistance and financial support to former espionage participants, are not precluded by the Tucker Act, and the government failed to comply with the formalities of the "state secrets" privilege.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/07/2002
• Decided 05/29/2003
• Published 05/29/2003

Judges

• Before:   CANBY, JR., BERZON, and TALLMAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Daniel L. Pines, Central Intelligence Agency, Mclean, VA;  Stuart Schiffer, Francis J. Diskin, Barbara L. Herwig, and Freddi Lipstein, Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for the defendants-appellants., Steven W. Hale and Elizabeth A. Alaniz, Perkins Coie LLP, Seattle, WA, for the plaintiffs-appellees.