United States Federal Circuit

Government's acceptance of payment from a third party that could have benefited from the government contract, if certain conditions are fulfilled, does not prove that the government intended to confer a right upon the third party.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/30/2001
• Published 03/30/2001

Judges

• MICHEL, Circuit Judge., Before MICHEL, Circuit Judge, PLAGER, Senior Circuit Judge, and LINN, Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States Federal Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Karl S. Lytz,Latham & Watkins, of San Francisco, CA, argued for plaintiff-appellant.   With him on the brief was Laurence H. Levine, of Chicago, IL., Laurens H. Silver, California EnvironmentalLaw Project, of Mill Valley, CA, for amicus curiae, Los Angeles City Council Women, et. al., Of counsel on the brief was Stanton J. Price, Law Offices of Stanton J. Price, of Santa Monica, CA.


• For Appellees:
  
• Mark R. Haag, Attorney, Appellate Section, Environment & Natural Resources Division, Department of Justice, of Washington, DC, argued for defendant-appellee.