1. Home
  2. |Insights
  3. |NAFI Contractor Wins over $100 Million In Wunderlich Act Review of ASBCA Decision

NAFI Contractor Wins over $100 Million In Wunderlich Act Review of ASBCA Decision

Client Alert | 1 min read | 11.16.12

In SUFI Network Servs., Inc, v. U.S. (Nov. 8, 2012), the Court of Federal Claims granted SUFI, represented by C&M, a judgment of over $100 million pursuant to a rare Wunderlich Act review of the ASBCA's damages determinations on several breach of contract claims brought in the aftermath of a telephone services contract with the Air Force's Non-Appropriated Fund Purchasing Office. Central to the court's decision to increase SUFI's recovery was its finding that the board had misapplied the burden of proof with respect to damages, seemingly ruling "in every possible way to cut back SUFI's damages" on claims for which liability was established while ignoring the willfulness of the Air Force's breaches and the clear fact of damage to SUFI on this "totally botched program of grand proportions."


Insights

Client Alert | 5 min read | 09.03.26

DOT Final Rule Narrows Airline Delay and Cancellation Reporting Obligation Under FAA Reauthorization Act of 2024

The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) published a final rule amending 14 CFR Part 234 that fundamentally changes how airlines report the causes of flight delays and cancellations. Effective October 19, 2026, the rule implements Section 511(b) of the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2024 by creating a new reporting category, the “Section 511(b) category,” for ten specific events that Congress determined are not attributable to airline control. The rule simultaneously narrows the existing "Air Carrier" reporting category by expressly excluding those same ten events....