Navigare Cruise Partners v. SBA

Case summary

Navigare Cruise Partners, LLC, which hosts live concerts and performances on cruise ships, sued the Small Business Administration and Administrator Isabella Casillas Guzman in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, No. 1:22-cv-00179, over a Shuttered Venue Operators Grant. The complaint for declaratory and injunctive relief, filed January 26, 2022 as Entry 1, says the company applied on August 8, 2021 for $7,964,288.50, that the SBA denied the application without explanation and on October 26, 2021 denied the appeal citing the principal business activity standard, and that the SBA approved awards for direct competitors that also lease space on cruise ships; Counts I through III plead violations of the Administrative Procedure Act, and the complaint asks the court to order the award plus a supplemental award of $2,035,711.50. These are the company's allegations. The complaint is the only filing in the archive; the hosted docket shows nothing after January 26, 2022.