Legal Opinion
Atlas Corp. v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided February 2, 1990No. Nos. 89-1205 to 89-1212PublishedCited by 196 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BENNETT, Senior Circuit Judge.
This appeal is from the final judgment of the Claims Court (Merow, J.) granting the government’s motion for judgment on the pleadings and dismissing the complaints. 15 Cl.Ct 681 (1988). We affirm.
BACKGROUND
The plaintiffs are corporations, or successors to corporations, which entered into contracts with the government for the production of uranium or thorium.
Following the Second World War, uranium production in the United States was practically nonexistent, and the military was dependent on foreign sources. In the late 1940’s, the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)…
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