J. L. Simmons Company, Inc., a Corporation v. The United States

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a prime contractor suffers actual damages if the prime contractor 1
• acknowledging Severin but holding that it did not bar a contractor from presenting the subcontractor’s claims pursuant to a consolidation agreement, implicit in which was the parties’ recognition of the contractor’s continued liability to the subcontractor
• The agreement between the prime contractor and the subcontractor provided that the prime contractor controlled the selection of attorneys for the presentation of all claims, and therefore implicitly controlled the presentation of all claims.
• “plaintiffs’ commitment to pay over to the subcontractor any recovery obtained”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).