Gordon R. England, Secretary of the Navy v. The Sherman R. Smoot Corp.

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• concluding that “mere grant by the government of a contract extension does not indicate that the government is at fault”
• concluding that a rebuttable presumption that the government is at fault for delay when the government ex- tended the period of contract performance is at odds with the Contract Disputes Act
• finding that payment of a claim after issuance of the modifications purporting to constitute an accord manifested that the parties did not construe the modifications as a release
• “A delay in a construction contract is excusable if it arises from either the government’s action or external forces.”
• \McMullan presumption is contrary to the CDA\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).