Boeing, General Dynamics Get Hearing in A-12 Case
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The U.S. Supreme Court, accepting a case that will affect government secrecy claims, agreed to review a ruling that could force Boeing Co. and General Dynamics Corp to pay $3 billion in a dispute over a canceled Navy aircraft contract.
The justices today said they will intervene in a 19-year-old legal dispute over the Pentagon’s 1991 termination of the A-12 Avenger stealth fighter aircraft program. A federal appeals court said the government was justified in canceling the contract because the companies weren’t living up to their obligations.