Pacific Maritime Ass'n v. United States

Defendant files a motion for a rehearing on the ground that our decision in this case is in conflict with our decision in Luff v. United States, 120 C. Cls. 682.

The gist of our holding in that case was that where a contractor allows the 90 days to elapse from the findings of the contracting agency without having appealed to the Appeal Board, or without having brought suit in this court, he is barred from doing so later on the theory that, independent of the Contract Settlement Act, he has a claim coming within our general jurisdiction. We did no more in that case than to reject the…