Dean v. Kendel

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that plaintiffs bear the burden of proving the existence of a contract with the United States.
• affirming summary judgment of no contract liability where plaintiff “attempt[ed] to forgo the initial step for proving a breach of contract claim (namely, proving that a contract existed)”
• “[T]he intent to contract ... is implausible because none of the documents ... mentions goodwill or the accounting treatment thereof.”
• “An agency’s performance of its regulatory or sovereign functions does not create contractual obligations.”
• “[P]erformance of . . . regulatory or sovereign functions [do] not create contractual obligations.”
• “performance of ... regulatory or sovereign functions does not create contractual obligations”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).