Legal Opinion
Rocky Mountain Helium, LLC v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided November 16, 2016No. 2016-1278PublishedCited by 60 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TARANTO, Circuit Judge.
Rocky Mountain Helium, LLC sued the United States in the United States Court of Federal Claims, asserting breach of two contracts concerning Rocky Mountain’s potential extraction of helium from beneath federal lands—the 1994 Helium Contract and the 2008 Settlement Agreement (the latter resolving a dispute centered on the former). The Court of Federal Claims found lack of jurisdiction over both claims and, in the alternative, dismissed the Helium Contract claim on the merits. We partly reverse the jurisdictional dismissal of the Helium Contract claim but affirm the…
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