United States v. Marrelli

How courts have described this case

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• holding the government to be estopped from denying the existence of a contract into which it never entered
• listing & applying the elements of equitable estoppel against the government
• government not immune from estoppel where its denial would be \ 'contrary to equity and good conscience' \
• government not immune from estoppel where its denial would be “ ‘contrary to equity and good conscience’ ”
• where Government had conducted on-site inspection and placed an order for $8,247.52 worth of goods, it was reasonable for contractor to assume it had been awarded contract for entire production quantity
• “It is essential to a holding of estoppel against the United States that the course of conduct or representation be made by officers or agents of the United States who are acting within the scope of their authority”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).