CAGUAS CENT. FEDERAL SAV. BANK v. U.S.

No. 99-5084.

215 F.3d 1304 (2000)

CAGUAS CENTRAL FEDERAL SAVINGS BANK, Plaintiff, and Maria Victoria Vazquez, Severiano Cordero, Maria Vazquez, Hilda Ruiz, Lorenzo Munoz Franco, Faustino Franquiz, Ana D. Marrero and Felix Balinas, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. UNITED STATES, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit.

June 21, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen G. Topetzes, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart LLP, of Washington, DC, argued for plaintiffs-appellants. With him on the brief was Stavroula E. Lambrakopoulos.

Jeanne E. Davidson, Deputy Director, Commercial Litigation Branch, Civil Division, Department of Justice, of Washington, DC, argued for defendant-appellee. With her on the brief were David W. Ogden, Acting Assistant Attorney General; David M. Cohen, Director; and Gregory R. Firehock, Trial Attorney.

John V. Thomas, Assistant General Counsel, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, of Washington, DC, for amicus curiae Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. With him on the brief was Dorothy Ashley Doherty, Counsel. Of counsel was William A. Gray, of Washington, DC.

Before PLAGER, Circuit Judge, FRIEDMAN, Senior Circuit Judge, and RADER, Circuit Judge.


FRIEDMAN, Senior Circuit Judge.

An insolvent savings and loan association and several of its former members brought this action in the United States Court of Federal Claims seeking damages from the United States for the government's alleged breach of its contractual commitment to permit the association to use a particular favorable accounting treatment of the goodwill it had acquired in connection with its merger in the early 1980's with two financially troubled savings...

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