Legal Opinion
Fauvergue v. United States
United States Court of Federal Claims
Decided February 24, 2009No. 08-431LPublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
MILLER, Judge.
After argument on a contested motion to certify a class action under RCFC 23 for a taking of property under the Rails to Trails Act, 16 U.S.C. §§ 1241-1251 (2000), this ease presents a relatively new issue in applying the United States Supreme Court’s 2008 decision demarcating as jurisdictional the United States Court of Federal Claims’ statute of limitations, 28 U.S.C. § 2501 (2000). The issue is whether putative class members are allowed to opt in after the six-year statute of limitations has expired, when the class-action complaint was filed before…
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