Wasatch Cnty. v. Util. Facility Review Bd.

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that the principal that the government bears the burden of proof to show the propriety of the default termination of a contract “appl[ies] with equal force where the Government has ter- minated a lease”
• noting that trial witnesses included Anthony Principi, former Secretary of Veterans Affairs
• considering whether defendant committed a material breach of the contract only after concluding that the termination was not authorized under the default provisions of the contract
• “Under the Contract Disputes Act, a contracting officer’s review of certified claims submitted in good faith is not intended to be a negotiating game where the agency may deny meritorious claims to gain leverage over the contractor.”
• “An implied term of every contract, including government contracts, is that each party will act in good faith toward the other, and that a party may be found to have breached the contract by acting in bad faith.”
• “An implied term of every contract, including government contracts, is that each party will act in good faith toward the other, and that a party may be found to have breached the contract by acting in bad faith.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).