Court Opinion

ID: 9445240
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-03 21:23:38.188313+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:30:10.853339
License: Public Domain

FAHY, Circuit Judge
(concurring in part).
I concur in the disposition the court makes of this appeal except its affirmance of the ruling on contract No. OEMsr-1211. As to that contract I think the settlement did not preclude relief under the Lucas Act. Section 3 of that Act provides that “a previous settlement under the First War Powers Act” shall not preclude relief under the Lucas Act. The *821settlement in this case, though entered into after adoption of the Lucas Act, specifically relates that it was “negotiated under the First War Powers Act.” And I think the terms “previous settlement” in section 3 refer simply to a settlement made prior to the seeking of relief under the Lucas Act rather than to one entered into prior to the adoption of that Act. If this view were that of a majority then the court would need to decide the question whether the action could be maintained notwithstanding the National Military Establishment, appellee, has ceased to exist eo nomine.