Liebherr Crane 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 illegal action by the government in violation of a statute or regulation may support allegations of du- ress
• holding that illegal action by the government in violation of a statute or regulation may support allegations of du- ress
• holding that reading only part of the solicitation constituted one of several “serious errors in business judgment”
• noting that the Navy immediately noted the wide disparity between contractor’s bid and the range of the other responsive proposals
• mistake of business judgment where errant proposal resulted from “gross neglect and choice in failing properly to examine and follow the specification”
• no duress supported by substantial evidence when there was “no indication that [the contractor’s acceptance] was involuntary”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).