Court Opinion

ID: 9491426
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 14:13:44.475334+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:54:43.838947
License: Public Domain

RHESA HAWKINS BARKSDALE, Circuit Judge,
specially concurring:
I concur in the judgment being AFFIRMED, but would do so on the basis that, pursuant to the district court’s findings of fact and conclusions of law, and the underlying evidence upon which they are based (especially, modification No. 009 and the Government contacting officer’s written response to the request for equitable adjustment), Century Marine’s claims presented in this court fail, to include its primary claim that it was not paid for work which it performed.
Concerning that primary claim, the references in the majority opinion concerning anticipated but unearned profits seem wide of the mark. Such a “lost-profit” claim is not raised by Century Marine; and, contrary to the approach taken by the majority, I would not assume that this is the indirect or implied thrust of the position asserted here. To do as the majority has done results, in my view, in this court reaching outside the record— something we should not, indeed cannot, do.