Two Kabul, Afghanistan, landowners failed to show that the US Department of State breached lease agreements by not returning to them properties the US leased until the 2021 Taliban takeover, the Federal Circuit said Thursday.
The Taliban occupation of those properties was a third-party action beyond control of the US government, Judge Leonard P. Stark of the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed.
The Civilian Board of Contract Appeals, in two “companion” decisions, correctly ruled in 2024 that breaches didn’t occur, and that landowner Abdul Mutakaber owes the US government $115,430 in rent refunds, the appellate court ...
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