Chaney and James Construction Company, Inc. v. The United States

How courts have described this case

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

• upholding decision that 45 days was the reasonable portion of a 90-day delay due to a stop-work order
• “[A]ll delay due to defective or erroneous Government specifications are per se unreasonable and hence compensable.”
• where contract clause is intended as substitute for action at law for breach, “the contractor should be entitled to get the same relief under the clause that he could get in the absence of the clause if he sued for breach of contract”
• \since the Suspension of Work clause is an administrative substitute for an action at law for breach ... the contractor should be entitled to get the same relief under the clause that he could get in the absence of the clause if he sued for breach of contract\
• \since the Suspension of Work clause is an administrative substitute for an action at law for breach . . . . the contractor should be entitled to get the same relief under the clause that he could get in the absence of the clause if he sued for breach of contract\
• addressing substantively identical clause text

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).