Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority v. 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 plaintiff stated a claim for breach of contract when it alleged the government failed to purchase insurance for plaintiff as agreed by contract
• holding that the United States was liable for plaintiffs state court attorney’s fees resulting from its breach of contract
• holding government could be liable for breach of a contractual obligation to purchase insurance for plaintiff
• “[T]he recovery sought by [Plaintiff] is not for attorney fees in an action against the United States, but for damages for breach of a contract to obtain insurance.”
• “However, the recovery sought by [the plaintiff] is not for attorney fees in an action against the United States, but for damages for breach of a contract to obtain insurance”
• “It is a fundamental rule of contract interpretation that the provisions are viewed in the way that gives meaning to all parts of the contract, and that avoids conflict, redundan- cy, and surplusage among the contract provisions.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).