Álvarez v. El Registrador de la Propiedad de Caguas

How courts have described this case

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• noting that retainage is used as indemnity by the government
• “it was not in [the government’s] power to withhold the pay in order that it might be secured against the consequences of a probable or possible failure”
• government's wrongful withholding of 100% of two consecutive progress payments as an indemnity against the chance of possible failure on the part of the contractor was a material breach
• government may not withhold payments as means of assuring contract compliance

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).