Seal & Co. v. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority

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• noting that the same “result is compelled whether WMATA is viewed (1) as a non-federal agency and a private cause of action analysis is employed using . . . techniques of statutory interpretation . . . or (2) as a quasi-federal agency and a zone of interests test is applied”
• “Congress on behalf of the District of Columbia was one of the parties agreeing to the Compact.”
• “Congress intended WMATA to conduct its procurements as a federal agency would and to be subject to suits by aggrieved bidders for procurement activities in violation of the Compact or WMATA’s regulations.”
• “[T]he agency involved— WMATA—is not a federal agency. Rather, it is ‘an instrumentality and agency of each of the signatory parties—the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia.’” (quoting WMATA v. One Parcel of Land, 706 F.2d 1312, 1314 (4th Cir. 1983)

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