Legal Opinion
South Corporation and Seal Fleet, Inc. v. The United States
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided October 28, 1982No. Appeal 82-19PublishedCited by 466 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MARKEY, Chief Judge.
This appeal is the first to be heard, and this opinion the first to be published, by the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, established October 1, 1982 by the Federal Courts Improvement Act of 1982, Pub.L.No.97-164, 96 Stat. 25.
The court sits in banc to consider what case law, if any, may appropriately serve as established precedent. We hold that the holdings of our predecessor courts, the United States Court of Claims and the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals, announced by those courts before the close of business September 30, 1982,…
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