United States Tenth Circuit

Summary judgment to defendants is affirmed where the interpretation of the Randolph-Sheppard Act by the Department of Education is entitled to deference, and the Act qualifies under CICA as an exception to the requirement for full and open competition.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/14/2003
• Published 11/14/2003

Judges

• PAUL KELLY, JR., Circuit Judge., Before KELLY, HOLLOWAY, and HARTZ, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• John S. Pachter,Smith, Pachter, McWhorter & Allen, P.L.C., Vienna, VA (and Douglas G. Schneebeck, Modrall, Sperling, Roehl, Harris & Sisk, P.A., Albuquerque, NM, on the briefs), for Plaintiffs-Appellants NISH and RCI, Inc. Also on the briefs, Patrick D. Allen, Yenson, Lynn, Allen & Wosick, P.C., Albuquerque, NM, for Plaintiff-Appellant RCI, Inc., Peter A. Nolan, Winstead, Sechrest & Minick, P.C., Austin, TX, for Amicus Curiae, National Council of State Agencies for the Blind.


• For Appellees:
  
• Andrew D. Freeman, Brown, Goldstein & Levy, L.L.P., Baltimore, MD, for Intervenor-Defendants-New Mexico Appellees., Jeffrica Jenkins Lee, Appellant Staff (Robert D. McCallum, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, David C. Iglesias, United States Attorney, and William Kanter, Appellant Staff, on the brief), Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Federal Appellees.