Rogers v. Alabama Dep't of Corr.

How courts have described this case

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• stating that “detailed measurements, tolerances, materials, and elaborate instructions as to how to perform the contract are of a design nature”
• holding superior knowledge test not satisfied when contractor “simply exercised misjudgment on its part when it relied on its own and its subcontractor’s less-than-thorough review of the contract materials and did not inquire with the Corps about the [site] conditions”
• rejecting contractor’s equitable estoppel claim, because “the government person who purportedly agreed to [the contractor’s] proposed price modification ... did not possess the requisite authority to bind the government.”
• “A government officer with the requisite authority must have directed the contractor to perform the additional work.”
• “The spirit and purpose of an equitable adjustment, such as that sought by plaintiff here, is to benefit the contractor and make it whole for changes ordered by the government.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).