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· 3/24/1982

Michele Portmann, Doing Business as Grafica, an Individual v. United States

Citations

  • 674 F.2d 1155
  • 1982 U.S. App. LEXIS 20718

How courts have described this case

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  • noting that, despite the general rule, some government contracts are exercises of sovereign responsibility
  • referring specifically to the Postal Reorganization Act of 1970, which aimed to make USPS financially independent and business-like
  • court found nothing in Supreme Court’s estoppel decisions which clearly foreclosed the availability of estoppel in a suit against the government

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Judges: Campbell, Cudahy, Cummings

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