Halperin Shipping Co., Inc. v. United States

OPINION AND ORDER

CARMAN, Judge:

The defendant United States (the government) moves this Court to strike the demand for a jury trial in an action brought by plaintiff pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1581(a) (1982). The government contends that no right to a jury trial is provided to plaintiff by either a statute of the United States or the United States Constitution and a jury trial is thus precluded under Washington International Ins. Co. v. United States, 863 F.2d 877 (Fed.Cir.1988), cert. denied, — U.S. -, 109 S.Ct. 3157, 104 L.Ed.2d 1020 (1989). Plaintiff argues, inter alia, that the relevant…