Riggins v. Brown

How courts have described this case

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• \Jurisdiction can only be exercised ... over cases in which appropriated funds can be obligated.\
• financial self-sufficiency does not establish NAFI where historically appropriations were received and are allowed under the statute for the future
• financial self-sufficiency does not establish NAFI where historically appropriations were received and are allowed under the statute for the future
• Claims Court does not have jurisdiction over cases where contract sued upon cannot be satisfied out of appropriated funds
• “Jurisdiction under the Tucker Act must be exercised absent a firm indication by Congress that it intended to absolve the appropriated funds of the United States from liability for acts of the Comptroller.”
• \Jurisdiction under the Tucker Act must be exercised absent a firm indication by Congress that it intended to absolve the appropriated funds of the United States from liability for acts of the Comptroller.\

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