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· 7/18/1994

Calvin G. Wright Jack Critchfield Desert Forest Products, Inc., D/B/A Hutchinson, Carter Company v. U.S. Postal Service

Citations

  • 29 F.3d 1426
  • 39 Cont. Cas. Fed. 76,686
  • 94 Daily Journal DAR 10034
  • 94 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 5472
  • 1994 U.S. App. LEXIS 17363
  • 1994 WL 370133

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that subcontractors could bring equitable liens against the U.S. Postal Service in district court based on the Postal Reorganization Act’s “sue and be sued” clause
  • applying reasoning of Liberty Construction to the USPS based on 39 U.S.C. § 401(1)
  • applying reasoning of Liberty Construction to the USPS based on 39 U.S.C. § 401(1)
  • expressly rejecting the view that “the CDA ‘pre-empt[s] the entire field of government contract remedies’”
  • specific waiver in Postal Reorganization Act

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Judges: Fletcher, Canby, Hall

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