Whittaker Electronic Systems v. John H. Dalton, Secretary of the Navy

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 contractor is precluded “from challenging the validity of a contract ,.. where it fails to raise the problem prior to execution, or even prior to litigation, on which it later bases its challenge”
• finding that the contractor “waived the right to challenge the validity of the contract” clause when it made no timely objection to that clause prior to the contract’s execution
• “The doctrine of waiver precludes a contractor from challenging the validity of a contract, whether under a DAR [defense acquisition regulation] or on any other basis, where it fails to raise the problem prior to execution, or even prior to litigation, on which it later bases its challenge.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).