New York Shipbuilding Corporation 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.

• holding that a contracting officer must “put his own mind to the problems and render his own decisions”
• holding that it is improper for a contracting officer to “merely rubber-stamp[ ] a subordinate’s or superior’s findings”
• suggesting that contractual designation of the Nuclear Projects Officer “would not mean that the Maritime Administration could not change ... the occupant of that post”
• “No proper initial decision has been rendered administratively, there is nothing from which to appeal, and there is nothing for the appeal board to consider.”
• “a decision by an official who would presumably would know much more about the local matter that these top officers”
• Where “the parties expressly chose and named a specific official ... as the initial decider ... [,] the [government could not unilaterally substitute another official.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).