Aircraft Associates & Mfg. Co., Inc. v. The United States

How courts have described this case

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• finding a valid claim of economic duress when the government had breached a valid contract and thereby had “contributed to plaintiff’s financial difficulties”
• duress established with respect to release under sales contract where Government knew of scavenging of subject matter, settlement offer was disproportionate, and Government demanded immediate settlement
• “the law is settled that the [as-is/where-is language] must be given effect____[this] standard provision of Government disposal contracts is neither unduly broad nor oppressive.”
• “Economic duress may not be implied merely from the making of a hard bargain.”
• release held invalidated by duress

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).