Unity Bank & Trust Company v. The United States

FRIEDMAN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from an order of the United States Claims Court granting the United States’ motion for summary judgment and dismissing the petition. The appellant Unity Bank & Trust Company (Unity Bank) contends primarily that the Davis-Bacon Act, 40 U.S.C. § 276a et seq. (1976), required the Department of Labor to investigate Unity Bank’s assignor’s wage reports to ascertain whether the assignor was paying the statutorily mandated wages, and that the government’s failure to do so caused the bank’s claimed losses. We affirm on the ground that under the Davis-Bacon…