Legal Opinion
A & S Council Oil Company, Inc. v. Philip Lader, in His Official Capacity as Administrator of the United States Small Business Administration
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided June 9, 1995No. 93-5345PublishedCited by 63 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STEPHEN F. WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge:
In the early 1980s the Small Business Administration subcontracted with three minority-owned small businesses to perform federal procurement contracts under its § 8(a) program. The companies lost money — or at any rate failed to make the profits they anticipated. They sued the SBA’s Administrator, alleging that the SBA acted arbitrarily and capriciously and in excess of its statutory authority because the contract prices failed to guarantee them a “reasonable profit”. The district court found that the SBA was “unjustly enriched” by its enforcement of the…
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