Thaxton v. Edwards

How courts have described this case

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• finding that the director of a government training facility had the authority to bind the government even though director was not a contracting officer
• finding implied authority given that the duties of scheduling, hiring, and paying invoices were central to the officer’s work
• “[A] person contracting with the federal government bears the burden of ascertaining that the agent is acting within the scope of her authority and duty”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).