Court Opinion

ID: 9431456
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-02 23:32:19.822937+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:23:28.616651
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Justice White,
concurring in the judgment.
The Court construes the District Court’s orders as not having entered a judgment for money damages within the meaning of 5 U. S. C. § 702. I am prepared to accept that view of what the District Court did, although the Court of Appeals had a different view.
The Court’s opinion, as I understand it, also concludes that the District Court, in the circumstances present here, would have had jurisdiction to entertain and expressly grant a prayer for a money judgment against the United States. I am unprepared to agree with this aspect of the opinion and hence concur only in the result the Court reaches with respect to the construction of § 702.
*913The Court is correct in holding that § 704 does not bar District Court review of the challenged orders, the reason being that the Claims Court could not entertain and grant the claims presented to and granted by the District Court. I thus agree with the result reached in Part III of the Court’s opinion.