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CARR v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

No. 79-1571.

646 F.2d 599 (1980)

Oliver T. CARR, Jr., Trustee et al. v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, a Municipal Corporation et al. United States of America, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided December 18, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carl Strass, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., with whom Dirk D. Snell, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., was on brief, Sanford Sagalkin, James W. Moorman and James C. Kilbourne, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for appellant United States of America.

William Joseph H. Smith, Washington, D. C., with whom S. Lamont Bossard, Jr., Redondo Beach, Cal., was on brief, for appellees.

Before ROBINSON, WILKEY and GINSBURG, Circuit Judges.

Opinion for the court filed by Circuit Judge GINSBURG.

GINSBURG, Circuit Judge:

In one of the most successful examples of urban development based upon cooperation between government and the private sector, Maryland landowners and trustees appointed by President George Washington arranged in 1791 for transfers of land to establish a Federal City, later named Washington.1 In this action and similar litigation in the Court of Claims...

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