United States v. Grosso

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the government can terminate a contractor for failure to make progress
• contractor was not 30 making progress, did not have necessary parts and had allowed labor force to wither away
• Missed milestones “indicate a pattern of nonperformance and delay which should not be ignored. Although not justifications for default in themselves, they provide a context for understanding and evaluating plaintiffs continued problems”
• United States allowed to pursue counterclaim in Court of Claims identical to claim pending in district court because section 1500 “applies to any claim which the plaintiff has pending in another court” (emphasis in original)
• affirming default termination despite lack of express repudiation
• defendant permitted to pursue as a counterclaim in the Court of Claims, a claim then pending in the district court under the False Claims Act .on the ground that § 1500 applies to “any claim which the plaintiff has pending in another court.” 537 F.2d at 399

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).