Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority v. United States

OPINION

ALLEGRA, Judge.

“If a contract is broken, the measure of damages generally is the same, whatever the cause of the breach. ”1

This is the second leg of a jurisprudential voyage having its genesis in a series of contracts entered into between the plaintiff, Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority (CMHA or plaintiff), and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to provide low-income housing under the United States Housing Act of 1937 (the Housing Act). This court previously held that plaintiffs rights under these contracts were repu*537diated by Congress in 1994, when it amended…