Baltimore Contractors, Inc. v. United States

The court today has announced a sweeping expansion of its scope of review in government contract cases. Ignoring the clearly posted signs of caution erected by the Congress and the Supreme Court which warn the Court of Claims that its jurisdiction to review these cases is bounded by the terms of the Wunderlich Act, 41 U.S.C. §§ 321, 322 (1976), this court once again wanders beyond those limits into the quicksands of legal error. This time it concludes that on the basis of what it perceives to be either lack of due process or procedural error by the appearance of unfairness and arbitrary…