Tait USA, LLC v. Small Business Administration — U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, No. 1:22-cv-01358-FYP

Case summary

Tait USA, LLC sued the Small Business Administration and its Administrator, Isabella Casillas Guzman, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Civil Action No. 22-1358 (FYP). The matter at issue, as the defendants' certification of the administrative record index describes it, is the SBA's July 22, 2021 denial of the company's application for Shuttered Venue Operators Grant funds. On September 21, 2022 the defendants gave notice of filing a certified list of the contents of the administrative record, certified by the Director of the SBA's SVOG Program as the non-privileged documents directly or indirectly considered in connection with the denial. On November 7, 2022 the parties stipulated to dismissal of the case without prejudice under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 41(a)(1)(A)(ii), each party to bear its own fees and costs. No opinion or judgment on the denial appears among the filings on this page.

Case at a glance

What does the certified administrative record index list?

Sixty-seven numbered entries running to Bates page 722: the SVOG application forms and certifications, a business license, a certificate of formation, a statement of need, consolidated financial reports, responses to application questions 4.1.1 to 4.1.4, technical corrections to questions 1 through 7, an entry headed "Invitation to Appeal by 9/6/2021 at 8 PM PT", an entry headed "SVOG Reasons for Decline/Eligibility", customer-service records, earned and gross revenue figures for 2019, 2020 and 2021, an IRS transcript, eligibility matrices filed on the appeal, and last an email and a decision on appeal both dated 07/22/2022.

Who certified the record?

Matthew T. Stevens, Director of the SVOG Program at the SBA, in a certification dated 08/22/2022 stating that the attached index is a true, correct and complete copy of the non-privileged documents directly or indirectly considered in connection with the denial. The notice states that the full administrative record was transmitted on September 21, 2022.

What do the filings on this page not show?

No complaint, no opinion and no judgment. The two documents do not set out the plaintiff's claims and record no ruling by the court on the denial; the case left the court on the parties' own stipulation, without prejudice.

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