Timber Products Co. v. United States

ORDER AND OPINION ON LIABILITY

WILLIAMS, Judge.

This timber sale case comes before the Court after a trial on liability.1 Plaintiff Timber Products Company (“Timber Products”) claims that the United States Forest Service (“Forest Service”) bi’eached the implied duties to cooperate and not hinder performance by awarding a timber sale contract without performing environmental surveys. Specifically, Plaintiff claims that Defendant knew that its interpretation of law which led it to forego the surveys was unlikely to prevail in a pending District Court action, but failed to inform Plaintiff of this…