United States Marine, Inc. v. United States

PER CURIAM: *

This appeal involves the United States Navy’s allegedly wrongful disclosure of the Mark V special operations craft designs to competitors of the designs’ co-owners: United States Marine, Inc. (USMI) and VT Halter Marine, Inc. (VT Halter). USMI brought a claim and VT Halter brought a counterclaim against the Navy,1 each for the tort of misappropriation of trade secrets. The district court found the Navy liable and awarded USMI and VT Halter $1.46 million in damages. However, because we find that both USMI’s claim and VT Halter’s counterclaim sound *108in contract and not in tort, they…