National Neighbors, Inc. v. The United States

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating that “the contractor is precluded by the [CDA] from pursuing its claim in both forums”
• noting that “an untimely appeal to the board is not a binding election under the Election Doctrine”
• stating that “a contractor’s filing of an appeal or initiation of a suit in a forum with jurisdiction over the proceeding” constitutes an election under the election doctrine
• finding that a contractor may either appeal a CO’s final decision to an agency board of contract appeals or to the Court of Federal Claims, but not both
• “The binding election of forums is an ‘either-or’ alternative, and, as such, does not provide a contractor with dual avenues for contesting a contracting officer’s adverse decision.”
• “the contractor is precluded . . . from pursuing its claims in both forums”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).