Park Properties Associates, L.P. v. United States

OPINION

ALLEGRA, Judge.

“[N]o man may take advantage of his own wrong.”1

This contract case is before the court on the parties’ cross-motions for partial summary judgment. Plaintiffs entered into rent subsidy agreements with the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), known as “Housing Assistance Payment” (HAP) contracts. Relying on Cuyahoga Metro. Hous. Auth. v. United States, 57 Fed.Cl. 751 (2003) (Cuyahoga I), this court previously determined that defendant repudiated those contracts in 1994, when Congress amended the controlling statute to alter the way in which rent…