Resource Conservation Group, LLC v. United States Deparment of Navy

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND FINAL ORDER

BRADEN, Judge.

I. RELEVANT FACTUAL BACKGROUND.1

In 1910, a typhoid fever epidemic swept through Annapolis, Maryland, affecting several United States Naval Academy (“Naval Academy”) midshipmen. See Michael Janofsky, Midshipmen To Get Milk Through Middleman, N.Y. TIMES, July 19, 1998. The epidemic was traced to a local milk distributor. Id. In response, the United States Congress authorized the Naval Academy to establish and operate a dairy. Id. In 1913, the Naval Academy purchased land in Gambrills, Maryland, fifteen miles from the Naval Academy in Annapolis,…