Legal Opinion
Westfed Holdings, Inc. v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided May 12, 2005No. 2003-5131PublishedCited by 70 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PROST, Circuit Judge.
This appeal is another in a series of Winstar-related cases. Westfed Holdings, Inc. (‘Westfed”) commenced a lawsuit on its behalf and derivatively on behalf of the insolvent thrift, Western Federal Savings and Loan Association (“New Western” or Western”), alleging that the federal government’s passage and imposition of the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act (“FIRREA”) breached the government’s agreement to forbear from imposing certain regulatory capital maintenance requirements on the thrift. Following a bench trial, the Court of Federal Claims…
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