Legal Opinion
R.P. Wallace, Inc. v. United States
United States Court of Federal Claims
Decided December 15, 2004No. 96-222 CPublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
ALLEGRA, Judge.
At least since the shock of exploding fireworks caused the scales to fall on poor Helen Palsgraf, courts have applied temporal and spatial limitations on the availability of tort damages, invoking familiar doctrines such as proximate cause and foreseeability. See Palsgraf v. Long Island R. Co., 248 N.Y. 339, 162 N.E. 99 (1928). Similar principia have evolved in contract cases and, not surprisingly, have wended them way into the regulatory and decisional fabric of Federal procurement law, particularly in assessing responsibility for delays in the completion of a contract,…
2Cases cited43 opinions
- Palsgraf v. Long Island R.R. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1928
- United States v. SpearinSupreme Court of the United States · 1918
- Newell Companies, Inc. v. Kenney Manufacturing Company, Defendant/cross-AppellantCourt of Appeals for the Federal Circuit · 1989
- J. D. Hedin Construction Company, Inc., for Its Own Use and for the Use of Fischbach & Moore, Its Sub-Contractor v. The United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1965
- Melvin Wilner, D/B/A Wilner Construction Company v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Federal Circuit · 1994
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3Cited by14 opinions
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- Sunshine Construction & Engineering, Inc. v. United StatesUnited States Court of Federal Claims · 2005
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