Erickson Air Crane Company of Washington, Inc. v. The United States

How courts have described this case

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• holding that subcontractors lack privity with the government and thus lack standing to bring a direct suit for breach of contract against the government
• holding that the “government consents to be sued only by those with whom it has privity of contract”
• holding that the “government consents to be sued only by those with whom it has privity of contract”
• stating, “[t]he government consents to be sued only by those with whom it has privity of contract, which it does not have with subcontractors”
• stating that “only the prime contractor may be the appellant”
• rejecting claims of subcontractors as lacking standing to sue under the Tucker Act

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).