Roberts v. Clark

ORDER

KANE, District Judge.

In a series of administrative and judicial decisions, defendant invalidated plaintiffs’ unpatented mining claims and quieted title to the public land involved in the United States. Plaintiffs appealed those decisions, and the United States prevailed in all proceedings. Roberts v. Andrus, 434 U.S. 834, 98 S.Ct. 121, 54 L.Ed.2d 95 (1977); Roberts v. Morton, 549 F.2d 158 (10th Cir. 1977); United States v. Zweifel, et al., 508 F.2d 1150 (10th Cir.1975); Roberts v. Morton, 389 F.Supp. 87 (D.Colo.1976).

Plaintiffs then brought suit in the United States Court of Claims…