Fireman's Fund Insurance Company v. Gordon R. England, Secretary of the Navy

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• holding that ascribing any broader definition “is for Congress, not this court.”
• finding that a surety is not a “bank, trust company, or financing institution” and thus an “assignment of a government contract to a surety [is] invalid”
• stating the Anti-Assignment Act “broadly prohibit[s] . . . transfers of 15 contracts involving the United States or interests therein, and assignment of claims against the United States.”
• noting the differences between the two provisions of the Anti-Assignment Acts
• “[The surety] was not a party to any contract with the government prior to the takeover agreement it had with the government, and its pre-takeover claims did not arise under such a contract.”
• explaining the legislation “commonly called the Anti-Assignment Act”

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