Suburban Mortgage Associates, Inc. v. United States Department of Housing & Urban Development

PLAGER, Senior Circuit Judge.

This case requires us to reexamine the jurisdictional boundary between the Tucker Act and the Administrative Procedure Act, as that boundary is understood in the light of the Supreme Court’s decision in Bowen v. Massachusetts. 1 The case began as a dispute between plaintiff Suburban Mortgage Associates, Inc. (“Suburban”), and defendants, the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (“HUD”) et al. (“Government”), 2 with regard to a contract for insurance. Plaintiff sued the Government in the United States District Court for the District of…