Prevado Village Partnership v. United States

OPINION

LYDON, Judge:

In its complaint, plaintiff, a partnership, seeks damages for breach by defendant, acting through the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), of an alleged implied-in-fact agreement to award plaintiff a construction contract under the Section 8 New Construction Program, which began as part of the 1974 general revision of the Housing Act of 1937, 42 U.S.C. § 1437f (1976). Plaintiff further claims that HUD violated its own regulations, which not only constituted a breach of this implied-in-fact contract, but also resulted in a violation of plaintiff’s Fifth…