Socorro de Hoyos v. Hospital Ramon Emeterio Betances

How courts have described this case

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

• 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).