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U.S. v. UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORP.

Nos. 08-4256, 08-4257.

626 F.3d 313 (2010)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant/Cross-Appellee, v. UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellee/Cross-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed: November 18, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Alan S. Gale , United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Appellant. Jeffrey A. Hall , Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott LLP, Chicago, Illinois, for Appellee. ON BRIEF: Alan S. Gale , United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Appellant. Jeffrey A. Hall , Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott LLP, Chicago, Illinois, David C. Greer , Bieser, Greer & Landis LLP, Dayton, Ohio, David Z. Bodenheimer , Crowell & Moring LLP, Washington, D.C., for Appellee.

Before: SILER and SUTTON, Circuit Judges; CLELAND, District Judge.

OPINION

SUTTON, Circuit Judge.

Fighter jet engines propel planes faster than the speed of sound, a sight that may be as exhilarating to watch as it must be to experience. Not so the procurement process for awarding contracts to make jet engines.

In the early 1980s, the Air Force set up a bidding process to make fighter jet engines. Attempting to win as many engine contracts as possible, United Technologies manipulated its cost estimates to convince...

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