Glendale Federal Bank, FSB v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
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Applies 12 U.S.C. § 1464 (Consumer Home Mortgage Assistance Act of 1974) · 28 U.S.C. § 2514
Relies on United States v. Winstar Corp. · Winstar Corporation Fsb v. United States · Chain Belt Co. v. United States · Acme Process Equipment Co. v. United States · Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. v. United States
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“The court recognizes that damages, particularly involving a thrift that entered a 40-year contract 18 years ago, which was breached nearly ten years ago, necessarily is not going to be found with the precision that one could determine damages resulting from the breach of a smaller, more discrete contract. But this should not, and cannot, defeat plaintiffs claim for damages. Put simply, the government should not be immunized from paying contract damages because the extent of both the contract and breach, and the time that has elapsed between the breach and today, makes it more difficult to calculate or conceptualize damages. The court has thus endeavored to deal as best as it can with the problems posed by the passage of time and the magnitude and complexity of the contract and the government’s breach.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Glendale’s officers and experts also credibly testified to the effect on depositors when a bank falls out of compliance.... [The thrift] also showed that a typical and logical response is to raise rates to both attract and keep deposits. Accordingly, since plaintiff has proved adequately its wounded bank damages, it is entitled to recover these, as .... reliance damages.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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