People of Enewetak, Rongelap, and Other Marshall Islands Atolls v. The United States

NIES, Circuit Judge.

These appeals are from the final judgments of the Claims Court in Peter v. United States, 13 Cl.Ct. 691 (1987), and Nitol v. United States, 13 Cl.Ct. 690 (1987), dismissing the complaints of inhabitants of the Enewetak, Rongelap, and other Marshall Islands Atolls for lack of subject matter jurisdiction. In dismissing the subject complaints, the Claims Court relied on its decision of the same date in Juda v. United States, 13 Cl.Ct. 667 (1987), 1 a closely related case involving claims by inhabitants of Bikini Atoll. In Juda, the Claims Court held that it lacked subject…