Koppers/Clough v. United States

This suit unfolds another phase of the construction difficulties encountered in the building of a radio communications base for the United States Navy at North West Cape in Western Australia. That project — and its pier — first came to our attention in Hardeman-Monier-Hutcherson v. United States, 198 Ct. Cl. 472, 458 F. 2d 1364 (1972), an action by the joint venture which undertook to erect the pier. This suit is by a later contractor on the project, Koppers/Clough (a joint venture of the Koppers Company, Inc., an American firm, and J. O. Clough & Son, Pty., Ltd., an Australian entity), which…