United States Ninth Circuit

In a case involving a dispute over a lease and purchase option between the Bellevue Post Office and the United States Postal Service (USPS), the District Court's order granting summary judgment in favor of USPS and compelling specific performance for the sale of property is affirmed where: 1) Washington law should be used as the applicable federal common law in this case; and 2) even under Washington law's high standard for awarding specific performance, the Postal Service successfully provided 'clear and unequivocal' evidence that it exercised its options to extend the term of the lease in strict compliance with the terms of the lease and that the lease therefore continued to exist through the time it also properly exercised its purchase option.

Appellate Information

• Published 2016/09/09

Judges

• SMITH

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel