Late yesterday, the Federal Circuit released a nonprecedential order dismissing a petition. This morning, the court released one precedential opinion and three nonprecedential orders dismissing appeals. The opinion comes in a government contract case appealed from the Court of Federal Claims. Here is the introduction to the opinion as well as links to the orders.
Connecticut Yankee Atomic Power Co. v. United States (Precedential)
This case is the latest in a series of nuclear-waste-related contract disputes between the United States and a group of utility companies known as “the Yankees” (the Connecticut Yankee Atomic Power Company, Maine Yankee Atomic Power Company, and Yankee Electric Power Company). The current appeal presents a single question of contract law: can the damages caused by the government’s continuing partial breach be offset by the Yankees’ investment gains earned by a legally mandated trust fund? The Court of Federal Claims answered in the negative and entered judgment in the Yankees’ favor. We reach the same conclusion and, therefore, affirm.