The Tucker Act made the United States widely suable on contract and constitutional claims

Evidence

“In 1887 the Tucker Act broadened the jurisdiction to include all ‘claims founded upon the Constitution of the United States or any law of Congress, except for pensions, or upon any regulation of an Executive Department, or upon any contract, expressed or implied, with the Government of the United States, or for damages, liquidated or unliquidated, in cases not sounding in tort, in respect of which claims the party would be entitled to redress against the United States either in a court of law, equity, or admiralty if the United States were suable’. — Henry M. Hart, Jr. and Albert M. Sacks, The Legal Process, 2236

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relevant to the federal tort claims and flood insurance material in prior chapters of this same volume; useful cross-course reference for the LGST institutions thread on how sovereign immunity is waived by statute. — connects to: Congress steadily delegates private claims adjudication to courts and agencies — Henry M. Hart, Jr. and Albert M. Sacks, The Legal Process: Basic Problems in…, 2294