Legal Opinion

Sea-Land Service, Inc. v. Richard J. Danzig, Secretary of the Navy

Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

Decided May 8, 2000No. 99-1124PublishedCited by 8 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

BRYSON, Circuit Judge.

This is a government contract case. The contract at issue was between the Navy’s Military Sealift Command ■ (MSC) and Sea-Land Service, Inc., for the shipment of military supplies to and from the Middle East during the Gulf War. After performance of the contract was completed, MSC claimed that the rates that Sea-Land charged to transport certain cargo under the contract violated the McCumber Amendment to the Cargo Preference Act of 1904, 10 U.S.C. § 2631, because Sea-Land’s rates for transporting that cargo were greater than the rates Sea-Land charged private shippers to…

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