January 9, 2006

EDITOR'S NOTES

The late Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., said, “Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.” This week’s cases take those square corners to heart, delivering narrow opinions in all four cases. In our first case, a contractor misses the deadline to file a proposed termination settlement. Creative arguments do not net it a win with the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals. Same goes for a contractor who tried to win three days worth of prejudgment interest from an appeals court after settling its dispute in mediation. Economic loss arguments and tort claims don’t go together for the justices of Ohio’s high court. And, South Carolina’s high court takes a narrow view in determining an “occurrence” in a CGL policy.

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