Legal Opinion
Del-Rio Drilling Programs Inc. v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided June 18, 1998No. 97-5055PublishedCited by 117 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BRYSON, Circuit Judge.
Del-Rio Drilling Programs, Inc., and the other named appellants (collectively “Del-Rio”) filed a complaint in the Court of Federal Claims seeking to recover $17,000,000 from the United States. Del-Rio asserted that the government, acting through the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), prevented Del-Rio from making beneficial use of mineral leases that the BLM had conveyed to Del-Rio. The government’s conduct, Del-Rio charged, constituted a breach of its contractual obligations under the leases and a taking of Del-Rio’s property for…
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