Tait Towers v. SBA

Case summary

TAIT Towers Manufacturing LLC, which creates and produces live performances, 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-01356, over a Shuttered Venue Operators Grant. The complaint for declaratory and injunctive relief, filed May 16, 2022 as Entry 1, challenges under the Administrative Procedure Act the SBA's denial of the company's April 26, 2021 application for $10,000,000; it says the SBA gave no reason for the initial denial, denied the appeal on November 9, 2021 citing the principal business activity standard, and approved a $10,000,000 award for competitor Clair Global, and that the company suffered a 74% loss in revenue in the last three quarters of 2020. It asks the court to set aside the denial and order an award of $10,000,000. These are the company's allegations. The complaint is the only filing in the archive; the hosted docket shows nothing after May 16, 2022.