City of Winston-Salem v. Yarbrough

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• damages considered to have been only remotely or consequentially caused by the government’s breach cannot be recovered as a matter of law
• “the test for jurisdiction [in the Claims Court], under the Tucker Act, is whether there has been in effect a ‘tortious’ breach of contract, rather than a tort independent of the contract.”

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