Court Opinion

ID: 9491595
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 14:18:21.148447+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:54:50.350092
License: Public Domain

PAULINE NEWMAN, Circuit Judge,
dissenting.
I respectfully dissent from the reversal of the relief granted by the Court of Federal *1262Claims. Although I agree that the United States did not breach this contract by deliberate acts in its derogation, as in the Winstar eases, it can not be gainsaid that the contract was made impossible of performance, whether as a matter of legislation, discretion, federalism, or politics, due to the continuing intervention of the State of North Carolina. In such case the contract was voided without the fault of either party, and Marathon and Mobil are entitled to relief in rescission and restitution. That is all the relief that was granted by the Court of Federal Claims. I would affirm the judgment of that court.