Monarch Assurance P.L.C. And Thomas Patrick Denton Taylor 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.

• explaining that “the trial court is 15 not expected to, nor should it, simply allow plaintiffs to embark on a wide-ranging fishing expedition in hopes that there may be gold out there somewhere”
• explaining that “the trial court is 15 not expected to, nor should it, simply allow plaintiffs to embark on a wide-ranging fishing expedition in hopes that there may be gold out there somewhere”
• while commenting that likelihood of proving actual authority was remote, the Court granted additional discovery because, on balance, possible harm and appearance of unfairness outweighed inconvenience to the government
• “[T]he law requires that a Government agent who purports to enter into or ratify a contractual agreement that is to bind the United States have actual authority to do so.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).