United States v. Oscar Renda

HIGGINSON, Circuit Judge.

This case, which arose out of a government dredging contract, requires us to delimit the scope of a corporate officer’s personal liability under 31 U.S.C. § 3713 (the “Priority Statute”). Specifically, we are called upon to decide (1) whether the decision of a contracting officer rendered pursuant to the Contract Disputes Act of 1978, as amended, 41 U.S.C. § 7101 et seq. (the “CDA”), constitutes a “claim” within the meaning of the Priority Statute, and, if so, (2) whether a debtor’s representative has “notice” of that claim, necessary to trigger personal liability…