Freeman v. United States

OPINION GRANTING THE GOVERNMENT’S MOTION TO DISMISS COUNT V OF THE AMENDED COMPLAINT

FIRESTONE, Judge.

Pending before the court is the United States’ motion to dismiss the claims of plaintiff RNR Resources LLC (“RNR”) set forth in Count V the amended complaint in the above-captioned case. 1 The named plaintiff, Walter Freeman, is the sole member of RNR. At issue in this litigation is the alleged Fifth Amendment taking of mining claims in the Rogue River Siskiyou National Forest in Southern Oregon. The mining claims were first made by Mr. Freeman. Those claims were declared null and void by the…