Wells & Wells, Inc. v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
269 F.2d 412 · 1959
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Universal Camera Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · Consolidated Edison Co of New York v. National Labor Relations Board · O'Leary v. Brown-Pacific-Maxon, Inc. · National Labor Relations Board v. Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co. · 174 F. Supp. 563 - Mann Chemical Laboratories, Inc. v. United States
Most-quoted passages
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“No provision of any contract entered into by the United States, relating to the finality or conclusiveness of any decision of the head of any department or agency or his duly authorized representative or board in a dispute involving a question arising under such contract, shall be pleaded in any suit now filed or to be filed as limiting judicial review of any such decision to cases where fraud by such official or his said representative or board is alleged: Provided, however, That any such decision shall be final and conclusive unless the same is fraudulent or capricious or arbitrary or so grossly erroneous as necessarily to imply bad faith, or is not supported by substantial evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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