Piggly Wiggly Corporation v. United States

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• acknowledging the existence of a “general rule that attorney’s fees are not allowed in suits against the United States in the absence of an express statutory provision allowing them”
• sovereign acts may harm party that has contracted with government unless contracting party protected against price in the event of the act
• “[Attorneys fees are not allowed in suits against the United States in the absence of an express statutory provision allowing them....”
• price control and allocation of plywood by the Office of Price Administration was a sovereign act; it was proper for Quartermaster Corps of War Department to terminate contract for convenience with appropriate recompense to contractor.
• price control and allocation of plywood by the Office of Price Administration was a sovereign act; it was proper for Quartermaster Corps of War Department to terminate contract for convenience with appropriate recompense to contractor.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).