Legal Opinion
Metcalf Construction Company v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided February 11, 2014No. 2013-5041PublishedCited by 138 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TARANTO, Circuit Judge.
We consider the scope of the duty of good faith and fair dealing under a contract between the federal government and a private company engaged to design and to build housing for the military. We hold that the Court of Federal Claims misread our precedent in articulating what the contractor, Metcalf Construction Company, needed to show in order to prove that the government breached that duty. We also hold that the trial court misinterpreted certain contractual provisions related to Metcalfs good-faith-and-fair-dealing claim. We therefore vacate the trial court’s decision…
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