Bayshore Resources Co. v. United States

OPINION

LYDON, Judge:

This case comes before the court on motions for summary judgment filed by the parties. The parties claim there are no genuine issues of material facts in dispute, and each seeks summary judgment as a matter of law.

*628In their complaint, seven plaintiffs allege that the United States, acting through the Secretary of the Interior, wrongfully and in bad faith challenged certain unpatented mining claims held by them, and numerous other individuals and entities, which resulted in administrative and judicial declarations that such mining claims were invalid.1 Plaintiffs allege that…