MAINE YANKEE ATOMIC POWER CO. v. U.S.

Nos. 99-5138 to 99-5140.

225 F.3d 1336 (2000)

MAINE YANKEE ATOMIC POWER COMPANY, Connecticut Yankee Atomic Power Company, and Yankee Atomic Electric Company, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. UNITED STATES, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit.

August 31, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jerry Stouck, Spriggs & Hollingsworth, of Washington, DC, argued for plaintiffs-appellees. Of counsel on the brief were Robert L. Shapiro, Peter J. Skalaban, Jr., and Michael R. Miner. Of counsel was Glenn S. Greene.

Harold D. Lester, Jr., Assistant Director, Commercial Litigation Branch, Civil Division, Department of Justice, of Washington, DC, argued for defendant-appellant. With him on the brief were David W. Ogden, Assistant Attorney General; and David M. Cohen, Director; and Marian E. Sullivan, Attorney. Of counsel on the brief were Marc Johnston, L. Dow Davis, IV, and Jane K. Taylor, Attorneys, Office of General Counsel, Department of Energy, of Washington, DC.

Before MAYER, Chief Judge, FRIEDMAN, Senior Circuit Judge, and NEWMAN, Circuit Judge.


FRIEDMAN, Senior Circuit Judge.

In this appeal the United States challenges a decision of the United States Court of Federal Claims that three electric utilities may maintain a damage suit based on the government's alleged breach of a 1983 contract with the utilities by which the government agreed, beginning no later than January 1, 1998, to dispose of the nuclear waste that had been produced at the utilities' nuclear power plant. The government has announced that...

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