Truckee-Carson Irrigation District v. United States

OPINION

REGINALD W. GIBSON, Judge:

Truckee-Carson Irrigation District (TCID), a public corporation organized under the laws of the State of Nevada, brings this action, as the real party-in-interest,1 to recover damages from the United States for breach of an alleged implied-in-fact contract commonly referred to as the “Nine-Point Program.” The terms of said purported implied-in-fact contract were that the plaintiff would forego the use of water, diverted from the Truckee River through the Newlands Reclamation Project, for power production during the winter months in consideration of certain…