United States Federal Circuit

In a suit against the U.S. asserting breach of two contracts concerning plaintiff's potential extraction of helium from beneath federal lands, the1994 Helium Contract and the 2008 Settlement Agreement, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims' finding of lack of jurisdiction over both claims and, in the alternative, dismissed the Helium Contract claim on the merits, is: 1) reversed in part as to the jurisdictional dismissal of the Helium Contract claim, but affirmed as to the merits dismissal of that claim; and 2) reversed as to the jurisdictional dismissal of the Settlement Agreement claim and remanded for further proceedings on that claim.

Appellate Information

• Published 2016/11/16

Judges

• TARANTO

Court

• United States Federal Circuit

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