Ocean Technology, Inc. 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.

• allowing recovery under an implied-in-fact contract after determining that a contract was awarded without valid competition
• focusing not on fact that the modification at issue was bilateral, but on the fact that it was not part of, nor intended to implement, the original contract, and thus was a new contract
• “Performance having been fully completed, holding the obligation to pay unenforceable is not a position favored in this circuit.”
• “Performance having been fully completed, holding the obligation to pay unenforceable is not a position favored in this circuit.”
• “if the option never constitutes the chief object of desire for which the contract was negotiated, the option is not a second contract”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

17 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Alliant Techsystems, Inc., Global Environmental Solutions Business Division v. United States, Defendant-Cross
  Federal Circuit· 1999-05-28· cited 143×
• American Telephone and Telegraph Company v. The United States, Defendant/cross-Appellant
  Federal Circuit· 1997-09-24· cited 26×
• Janowsky v. United States
  Court of Claims· 1991-08-06· cited 16×
• Eastern Trans-Waste of Maryland, Inc. v. United States
  Federal Claims· 1992-11-24· cited 15×
• Unified Industries, Inc. v. United States
  Court of Claims· 1991-12-02· cited 11×
• PCL Construction Services, Inc. v. United States
  Federal Claims· 1998-06-24· cited 10×
• Seven Resorts, Inc. v. United States
  Federal Claims· 2013-09-16· cited 9×
• Dms Imaging, Inc. v. United States
  Federal Claims· 2015-10-27· cited 8×
• International Business Investments, Inc. v. United States
  Court of Claims· 1990-07-25· cited 7×
• Janowsky v. United States
  Federal Claims· 1996-07-03· cited 6×
• CPT Corp. v. United States
  Court of Claims· 1992-03-13· cited 6×
• Godley v. United States
  Court of Claims· 1992-08-14· cited 6×
• Cole County Regional Sewer District v. United States
  Court of Claims· 1991-02-07· cited 5×
• Storage Technology Corp. v. CCL Service Corp.
  D. Maryland· 2000-04-18· cited 2×
• Bay County, Florida v. United States
  Federal Claims· 2014-06-12· cited 2×
• Telex Communications, Inc. v. United States
  Federal Claims· 1998-04-16· cited 2×
• Micalizzi v. Rumsfeld
  D. Vermont· 2003-01-02

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1986-06-25· cited 135,235×
• Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 20,645×
• Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. Federal Communications Commission
  Supreme Court· 1969-06-09· cited 1,826×
• Library of Congress v. Shaw
  Supreme Court· 1986-07-01· cited 871×
• United States v. Shimer
  Supreme Court· 1961-06-12· cited 530×
• United States v. N. Y. Rayon Importing Co.
  Supreme Court· 1947-02-03· cited 247×
• The United States v. Amdahl Corporation
  Federal Circuit· 1986-03-06· cited 131×
• Urban Data Systems, Inc. v. The United States
  Federal Circuit· 1983-02-04· cited 91×
• Prestex Inc. v. The United States
  Court of Claims· 1963-07-12· cited 89×
• Herbert Schoenbrod, as Trustee, Etc. v. The United States
  Court of Claims· 1969-05-16· cited 41×
• Gloria Money v. Office of Personnel Management, and Betty J. Money, Intervenor
  Federal Circuit· 1987-02-11· cited 33×
• John M. Jackson v. United States Postal Service
  Fifth Circuit· 1986-10-14· cited 32×
• McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. United States
  Court of Claims· 1982-01-27· cited 25×
• Ralden Partnership v. The United States
  Federal Circuit· 1989-12-14· cited 11×
• C.M.P., Inc. v. United States
  Court of Claims· 1985-09-26· cited 7×