Rodríguez Reyes v. Caribbean Hospital Corp.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that, if contractor is hable to sub, ‘that liability, though not yet satisfied by payment, might well constitute actual damages to [the contractor], and sustain their suit’ under rule that contractor may only sue to recover its own damages
• holding a contractor may sue the government only for damages incurred by its subcontractor for which the contractor is liable
• under the Tucker Act, the government did not consent to suit for breaches of contract involving no or nominal damages
• “Plaintiffs therefore had the burden of proving, not that someone suffered actual damages from the defendant’s breach of contract, but that they, plaintiffs, suffered actual damages.”
• “The subcontractor could not sue the Government since it has not consented to be sued except, so far as relevant to this case, for breach of contract.”
• “The subcontractor could not sue the Government since it has not consented to be sued except, so far as relevant to this case, for breach of contract. But the Government had no contract with the subcontractor, hence it is not liable to, nor suable by him.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).