Legal Opinion
Herman Chang, Patrick Conners, William Guthrie, Warren Parkhurst, John Register and John Woodward v. The United States
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided October 13, 1988No. 88-1120PublishedCited by 64 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MICHEL, Circuit Judge.
Mr. Herman Chang and the five other individuals named in the complaint (plaintiffs) appeal the judgment of the United States Claims Court in Chang v. United States, 13 Cl.Ct. 555 (1987), granting the government’s motion to dismiss their complaint for failure to state a claim upon which relief could be granted. We affirm.
Background
Plaintiffs were working as petroleum engineers in Libya under private, written employment contracts entered into in 1985 with Sirte Oil Company (Sirte), a Libyan corporation. In January 1986, President Reagan declared a national emergency…
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