Estate of Mullis v. Monroe Oil Co.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “since there is no contract [claim], the Court lacks jurisdiction over the primary claim for money damages so there is no jurisdiction over the subordinate claim for declaratory relief’
• explaining that an offer to contract with the government must amount to more than a mere expression of intent or general willingness to do something
• “[M]ere solicitations, invitations or instructions from the Government are not offers to contract that bind the Government upon plaintiffs completion of a form, even when the solicitations, invitations or instructions are embodied in a statute or regulation.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).