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Timestamp: 2019-04-18 12:43:51+00:00

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We have represented a large number of financial institutions and related investors in cases that flow from the landmark 1996 Supreme Court decision in United States v. Winstar Corp., a case argued by Mr. Cooper, in which the Court held that the federal government was liable for damages for the injuries caused by Congress’ decision to change the accounting rules that had induced healthy financial institutions and investors to take over failing thrifts in the 1980s. These cases had far-reaching implications for the government’s responsibility to honor its business contracts regardless of subsequent changes in policy or law. Among the financial institutions and other companies represented by the firm in these cases are Bank of America, TCF Bank, Coast Federal Savings Bank, the Ford Motor Company, and AmBase Corporation. We have represented our “Winstar” clients in trial proceedings before the U.S. Court of Federal Claims and appellate proceedings before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the Supreme Court. Our clients have been awarded hundreds of millions of dollars in damages.
McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. United States, Nos. 2007-5111, -5131 (Fed. Cir. 2009) vacated and remanded sub nom. Gen. Dynamics Corp. v. United States, No. 09-1298 (U.S. 2011).
We represented Boeing in a dispute with the Department of Defense over the government’s cancellation of a $4.8 billion contract to build a Navy stealth fighter jet. We successfully persuaded the Supreme Court to throw out a ruling that could have forced Boeing and General Dynamics to pay $3 billion to the government.
As co-counsel to Boeing, we successfully challenged the Department of Defense’s award of a contract to replace the United States’ aging fleet of aerial refueling tankers to a competing bidder. On rebid, Boeing won the contract which was worth tens of billions of dollars to our client.
Ford Motor Company v. United States, No. 03-5092 (Fed. Cir. Dec. 3, 2004).
We successfully represented Ford Motor Company in a breach of contract suit against the United States arising from a World War II contract for the manufacture of B-24 Liberator Bombers. Ford seeks to recover the environmental cleanup costs it has incurred in connection with Ford’s performance of the cost-plus-a-fixed-fee contract. The Federal Circuit reversed the trial court and ruled in Ford’s favor.
Shell v. United States, No. 05-704C (Fed. Cl.).
We represent Shell, Unocal, Atlantic Richfield Co., and Chevron-Texaco in a major contract dispute with the United States government. Our clients seek compensation for environmental remediation costs that they have incurred as a result of their performance of World War II contracts for the federal government.
We represented EmpowerIT (formerly known as Marketing and Management Information, Inc. (“MMI”)), in a breach of contract action against the United States in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims. The lawsuit stemmed from the decision of the Defense Commissary Agency (“DeCA”) (an agency within the Department of Defense) to terminate a sale/exchange contract between MMI and DeCA, pursuant to which DeCA agreed to provide MMI with raw “scanner data” pertaining to sales at commissaries and MMI agreed to process that data and to perform certain category management support services for DeCA. The trial court granted our summary judgment motion on liability. After extensive discovery, the government agreed to settle the case on the eve of trial.
Space Exploration Technologies Corp. v. United States, No. 14-354 (Fed. Cl.).
We successfully represented ULA in a major bid protest brought by SpaceX challenging the award and execution of a 5 year contract with the Air Force, valued at $11 billion, for 27 rockets to launch national security satellites into orbit. SpaceX ultimately agreed to dismiss the protest with prejudice under terms that honored all of the Air Force’s contractual obligations to ULA.

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