L'Enfant Plaza Properties, Inc. v. United States

*585OPINION

MAYER, Judge.

This is another chapter in the protracted litigation over construction of a building complex in an urban renewal area of Washington, D.C. Plaintiff L’Enfant Plaza Properties, Inc. (L’Enfant) brought suit in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia in 1975 to recover $10 million for breach of five ground leases by the District of Columbia Redevelopment Land Agency (RLA). On L’Enfant’s motion, the case was transferred to the United States Court of Claims where defendant moved to dismiss on grounds that the court lacked jurisdiction because RLA was not a…