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Vincent J. Colatriano Partner | vcolatriano@cooperkirk.com Vincent J. Colatriano has extensive civil litigation experience representing a wide range of clients before a number of administrative agencies and federal and state trial and appellate courts on a variety of constitutional, statutory, administrative, contractual, tort, and commercial matters. Mr. Colatriano has appeared regularly in cases brought against the federal government. He has represented numerous financial institutions and other companies (including Bank of America, California Federal Bank, TCF Bancorp, and a subsidiary of Ford Motor Company) in so-called "Winstar" cases against the United States. Most recently, Mr. Colatriano served as one of the trial counsel for American Capital Corporation and Transcapital Financial Corporation in a Winstar lawsuit against the United States for breach of contract arising from an agreement entered by the Government in an effort to address the savings and loan crisis of the 1980s. Following trial, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims awarded the plaintiffs $109 million of damages in May 2005. Mr. Colatriano has also successfully represented other companies in government contract cases against the United States. Mr. Colatriano has also represented state governments in numerous constitutional, statutory, administrative law, and commercial matters involving such complex issues as the disposal of nuclear waste, compliance with oil and gas leases, and the commerce clause. For example, Mr. Colatriano has participated in the representation of the State of Alabama in proceedings before the Supreme Court of Alabama in a matter involving fraud and breach of contract claims arising out of oil and gas leases entered by the State. This representation raises numerous complex issues involving such matters as the law of fraud, the proper construction of royalty clauses in oil and gas leases, and the constitutionality of punitive damages awards. Mr. Colatriano has also represented the State of Nevada in complex litigation concerning the federal government's proposal to dispose of nuclear waste at a facility at Yucca Mountain in Nevada; that matter involved numerous complex questions concerning constitutional, statutory, and administrative law issues. Mr. Colatriano also has extensive experience representing clients in proceedings before administrative agencies, and has worked on cases before such agencies as the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (in matters involving the Atomic Energy Act and the Nuclear Waste Policy Act) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (in matters involving the Animal Welfare Act). Mr. Colatriano was awarded his B.A. degree in Political Science, summa cum laude, from George Washington University in 1987, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. In 1990, he received his J.D. degree from the National Law Center, George Washington University, with highest honors. He was a member of the George Washington Law Review, the Phi Delta Phi International Legal Fraternity, and the Order of the Coif. Mr. Colatriano is a member of the bars of the State of Maryland, the District of Columbia, the Supreme Court of the United States, the United States Courts of Appeals for the Federal, First, and District of Columbia Circuits, the United States District Courts for the District of Maryland and the District of Columbia, and the United States Court of Federal Claims. Publications The Legal Authority of the Department of the Treasury to Promulgate a Regulation Providing for Indexation of Capital Gains, 12 Virginia Tax Review 631 (1993) (co-Authored with Charles J. Cooper and Michael A. Carvin ). |
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