Peoples Brewing Company v. Kleppe, 72-C-606.
Citation | 360 F. Supp. 729 |
Decision Date | 13 June 1973 |
Docket Number | No. 72-C-606.,72-C-606. |
Parties | The PEOPLES BREWING COMPANY, a Wisconsin corporation, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Thomas S. KLEPPE, Administrator, Small Business Administration, and Melvin Laird, Secretary, Department of Defense, Defendants. |
Court | U.S. District Court — Eastern District of Wisconsin |
Edward S. Levin, Milwaukee, Wis., for plaintiffs.
David J. Cannon, U. S. Atty., Milwaukee, Wis., for defendants.
DECISION and ORDER
The defendants have moved to dismiss the complaint which alleges that the defendants have failed to comply with statutory requirements in connection with the plaintiff corporation's interest in obtaining contracts for the sale of beer to governmental agencies. As a small business concern and minority enterprise, Peoples Brewing Company charges that the defendants have discriminated against the individual plaintiffs as black minority businessmen in violation of 42 U.S.C. § 2000d.
Insofar as the complaint seeks a mandatory injunction, it is barred by the provisions of 15 U.S.C. § 634(b)(1); while this section authorizes a suit against the administrator of the Small Business Administration, it forecloses the issuance of an injunction against the administrator to compel a specific result in a discretionary area. In Romeo v. United States, 462 F.2d 1036, 1038 (5th Cir. 1972), the court said:
In my judgment, the relief sought against the administrator for his alleged actions or inactions in connection with 15 U.S.C. § 637(a) cannot be granted by the court. In United States v. Capital Assistance Corporation, 460 F.2d 256 (9th Cir. 1972), the court stated:
". . . it is argued that refusal to renew the loan was arbitrary and that the government is estopped from claiming that the sums in question are due and owing . . . The renewal of the loan in this case under 15 U.S. C. 683(b) is an act committed to agency discretion and therefore excepted from judicial review."
In addition, the plaintiff's demand for relief by way of mandamus or for damages under the federal tort claims act are inappropriate since they also relate to discretionary conduct on the part of the administrator. Prairie Band of...
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