United States Federal Circuit

Damages for breach of contract between the plaintiff bank and the government resulting from passage of the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act may be accurately calculated where the contract spells out the parties' duties with sufficient detail.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/21/2001
• Published 09/21/2001

Judges

• MAYER, Chief Judge., Before MAYER, Chief Judge, RADER and LINN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Federal Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Mitchell R. Berger,Patton Boggs LLP, of Washington, DC, argued for plaintiffs-appellants.   With him on the brief were Michael J. Schaengold, and Ugo Colella.   Of counsel on the brief were I. Thomas Bieging, and Catherine M. Grainger, McKenna & Cueno LLP, of Denver, CO.


• For Appellees:
  
• David M. Cohen, Director, Commercial Litigation Branch, Civil Division, Department of Justice, of Washington, DC, argued for defendant-appellee.   With him on the brief were Jeanne E. Davidson, Deputy Director;  Elizabeth M. Hosford, Craig Gottlieb, and Kenneth Dintzer, Trial Attorneys.