Meanor v. Peoples Nat'l Gas, Pet of: Wagner

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that the plaintiff “never had an unconditional interest” in certain funds because the government “expressly reserved the right to recover those funds for certain reasons within a specific period of time”
• holding that offer and acceptance were established where the documents authored by the federal government showed its “willingness to enter into a bargain and justified [the state’s] understanding that its assent would consummate the bargain”
• explaining that our court’s breach of contract jurisdiction extends over claims “solely for money and not for injunctive relief or specific performance” (cleaned up)
• explaining that the Court of Federal Claims may dismiss frivolous al- legations of breach of contract with the government
• explaining that a plaintiff must make a non-frivolous argument that a contract exists to establish the court’s jurisdiction
• concluding proper disposition is under 12(b)(6)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).