Williams v. Parish of St. Bernard

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• noting that an amount “up to” $2.2 million, “has been construed to include zero as its lower limit”
• noting that implied actual authority to create a contract does not exist when “express provisions limit the ability of an individual to enter into a particular type of contract or arrangement”
• explaining that plaintiff could not identify the agents at his alleged meeting
• granting summary judgment to the United States because FBI SAs lack the requisite actual authority to contractually bind the United States to grant rewards to confidential informants and cooperative witnesses
• granting summary judgment to the United States because FBI SAs lack the requisite actual authority to contractually bind the United States to grant rewards to confidential informants and cooperative witnesses
• granting defendant summary judgment where the informant failed to show that any of the parties with whom he dealt had authority to enter into a reward contract of the sort he alleged

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