United States Steel Corp. v. United States

This is an appeal by United States Steel Corporation (USS), plaintiff, from a decision of the Department of Labor Board of Contract Appeals (the Board), in which USS claims damages for an alleged breach of contract by the Department of Labor (DOL), with which it had a contract, and also claims alleged mitigating damages, plus a recovery on an alleged implied contract. The United States, defendant, denies that a breach of the contract occurred, and contends that there are no compensable mitigating damages, that no recovery can be allowed on an implied contract theory, and that the Board did…