D. R. Smalley & Sons, Inc. v. The United States

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the conditional grant of federal funds to Ohio for highway projects did not make the federal government hablé for Ohio’s acts or omissions
• holding that the conditional grant of federal funds to the State of Ohio for highway projects did not make it an agent of the United States for purposes of liability related to those projects
• holding certain federal grants of highway funds to be “gifts or gratuities”
• asserting that “[i]t would be farfetched indeed to impose liability on the Government for the acts and omissions of the parties who contract to build the projects, simply because it requires the work to meet certain standards”
• finding federal grants insufficient to warrant agency relationship, regardless of accompanying performance standards

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).