McComas v. Gannard

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 court may not exercise jurisdiction over an unripe claim since it is “premised upon contingent future events that may not occur as anticipated, or indeed may not occur at all”
• determining that a court cannot exercise jurisdiction over an unripe claim because it is “premised upon contingent future events that may not occur as anticipated, or indeed may not occur at all”
• discrediting plaintiffs irreparable harm argument because “any harm plaintiff will suffer ... [was] significantly of its own making.”
• “[o]nly in extraordinary circumstances, such as the prospect of insolvency or an inability to collect damages, will monetary damages alone give rise to irreparable harm”
• “If a claim is not ripe ... it must be dismissed without prejudice.”
• “Courts have been virtually unanimous in declining to direct the award of contracts, believing that this decision is properly left to the discretion of the contracting agency.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).