Stockton East Water District v. United States

OPINION AND ORDER

KAPLAN, Judge.

This decades-old dispute is before the Court for the third time on remand from the United States Court of Appeals for the Fed eral Circuit. See Stockton E. Water Dist. v. United States (Stockton East IV), 761 F.3d 1344, 1345-46 (Fed. Cir. 2014). The issue before the Court is whether Plaintiff Central San Joaquin Water Conservation District (Central or “the district”) is entitled to expectancy damages based on the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation’s (Reclamation) breach of its contractual obligation to make certain minimum amounts of surface water available to Central…