P.J. Maffei Building Wrecking Corporation v. The United States

How courts have described this case

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• ruling that a review of contract specifications presents a question of law
• instructing that a proper technique of contract interpretation is for the Court to place itself “into the shoes” of the parties
• “As a threshold matter, then, this kind [Type I] of Differing Site Conditions claim is dependent on what is ‘indicated’ in the contract.”
• “As a threshold matter, then, this kind [Type I] of Differing Site Conditions claim is dependent on what is ‘indicated’ in the contract.”
• contract “indication” need not be explicit or specific, the documents provided sufficient grounds to justify a bidder’s expectation of latent conditions materially different from those actually encountered.
• “While it is true that a contract ‘indication’ need not be explicit or specific, the contract documents must still provide sufficient grounds to justify a bidder’s expectation of latent conditions materially different from those actually encountered.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).