Saul Freedman, D/B/A M. & E. Equipment & Parts Company v. The United States

How courts have described this case

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• holding that plaintiff could recover “the gain he would have realized” or his “net damages” if the United States had performed under the contract
• government’s cancellation of contract to sell surplus tanks because of subsequent discovery of presence in tanks of valuable diesel engines found not to be a sovereign act
• “The doctrine ... does not reheve the government from liability where it has specially undertaken to perform the very act from which it later seeks to be excused”
• “The doctrine ... does not relieve the government from liability where it has specially undertaken to perform the very act from which it later seeks to be excused”
• “[The sovereign acts doctrine] does not relieve the Government from liability where it has specially undertaken to perform the very act from which it later seeks to be excused.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).