American Science and Engineering, Inc. v. Joseph A. Califano, Jr., Secretary of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare

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• likening effort to ground jurisdiction in federal question to characterizing it as an APA claim and rejecting both as undercutting Claims Court jurisdiction over contract claims
• “review by the Court of Claims has consistently been held to provide an adequate remedy for an alleged breach of contract by a federal agency”
• “[T]he essence of the action is in contract, and plaintiff cannot ‘by the mystique of a different form of complaint’ make it otherwise.”
• it is of no concern that Claims Court cannot provide the precise equitable relief desired
• \[T]he jurisdiction of the [CFC] over suits grounded in contract is exclusive.\

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