Dante Hyndman v. Small Business Administration

Case summary

Dante Hyndman, proceeding pro se and in forma pauperis, sued the Small Business Administration, Administrator Isabel Guzman, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and the United States in the Southern District of New York (No. 7:22-cv-04973, filed June 13, 2022) under the Administrative Procedure Act over the SBA's denial of his COVID-19 Economic Injury Disaster Loan application; he alleged that he applied on April 1, 2020, was denied on June 13, 2020 for unsubstantiated economic injury, reapplied 12 times through 2020 and 2021, and lost an appeal on December 14, 2021. The defendants moved to dismiss on April 7, 2023. On January 22, 2024 Judge Philip M. Halpern granted the motion (Document 36), holding that the complaint failed to state a claim, and dismissed it with prejudice because amendment would be futile; the Clerk's judgment (Document 37) closed the case the same day. The judgment, the opinion and the CourtListener docket are the three documents on the page; the January 22, 2024 judgment is the latest filing.