Croman Corp. v. United States

OPINION AND ORDER

HEWITT, Judge.

This is a suit for damages alleged to have resulted from the suspension of a timber sale contract. The performance of the contract was delayed following the listing by the Fish and Wildlife Service of the United States Department of the Interior (Fish and Wildlife) of the marbled murrelet as a threatened species and the resulting investigation of a portion of the Klamath National Forest in California to determine whether that area was a murrelet habitat. Plaintiff, Croman Corporation (Croman), argues that it temporarily lost the benefit of its contract for the…