United States Eleventh Circuit

The statute of limitations under 28 USC 2415(a) bars a suit seeking damages for a breach of surety agreement where the government waits more than six years from the accrual of its cause of action and more than one year after termination of a final decision in an administrative proceeding. The Contract Dispute Act does not apply to claims stemming from the breach of surety agreement.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/31/2001
• Published 05/31/2001

Judges

• KRAVITCH, Circuit Judge:, Before DUBINA and KRAVITCH, Circuit Judges, and DUPLANTIER , District Judge.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Edward G. Gallagher, Wickwire Gavin, P.C., Vienna, VA, for Surety Ass'n of America, Amicus Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• John V. Burch,Charles Robert Sharp, Bovis, Kyle & Burch, LLC, Atlanta, GA, for Defendant-Appellant., Michael P. Finney, Sp. U.S. Atty., Pamela A. Moine, Pensacola, FL, for Plaintiff-Appellee.