Russell & Summers v. Birmingham Grain Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• acknowledging that, although bound by determination of the Small Business Administration regarding Certificate of Competency, contracting officer has discretion to award contract “based on independent judgment and new information”
• upholding Small Business Administration’s refusal to issue a certificate of competency to contractor with an unsatisfactory safety record, despite contractor’s ongoing corrective action
• characterizing the SBA’s final memorandum and meeting summary as not the “ideal manifestation of cogency” for judicial review
• upholding Small Business Administration’s refusal to issue a certificate of competency to contractor with an unsatisfactory safety record, despite contractor’s ongoing corrective action
• upholding Small Business Administration’s refusal to issue a certificate of competency to contractor with an unsatisfactory safety record, despite contractor’s ongoing corrective action
• setting forth the Esch exceptions and stating that “[t]o the extent these exceptions are implicated in plaintiffs challenge ..., the court will consider plaintiffs extra-record showings”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).