Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., Plaintiff/cross-Appellant v. United States

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a unilateral contract is formed “between the [G]overnment and a private party if promissory words of the former induce significant action by the latter in reliance thereon”
• holding that damages “such as would have been realized by the party from other independent and collateral undertakings . . . are too uncertain and remote to be taken into consideration as a part of the damages occasioned by the breach of the contract in suit.”
• holding that damages “such as would have been realized by the party from other independent and collateral undertakings . . . are too uncertain and remote to be taken into consideration as a part of the damages occasioned by the breach of the contract in suit.”
• holding that damages “such as would have been realized by the party from other independent and collateral undertakings . . . are too uncertain and remote to be taken into consideration as a part of the damages occasioned by the breach of the contract in suit.”
• noting that the disputed profits must be “the only purpose of the contract”
• liability decided on a motion for partial summary judgment with “a separate trial for damages”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).