including those entered into by the government, are viewed in light of governing contract principles”); Jencks v. Modern Woodmen of Am., 479 F.3d 1261, 1266 (10th Cir.2007) (treating a negotiated settlement agreement as a contract subject to the rules of contract interpretation). Neither party has addressed whether federal or state rules of contract interpretation should be applied here, but it makes no practical difference when both federal and state contract law apply the objective theory of contracts. See Harris, 477 F.3d at 1047 n. 2 (declining to determine whether federal or state law governed a negotiated settlement agreement because contract principles would be the same under state and federal law); Sheng v. Starkey Labs., Inc., 117 F.3d 1081, 1083 n. 1 (8th Cir.1997) (<HOLDING>). Here both Maryland and federal law apply the
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