United States Seventh Circuit

The Arsenal Act at 10 USC 4532, requiring the Army to conduct cost analysis comparing the economic efficiency of using government employees for manufacture of weapons parts before retaining a private company, does not apply where a private company is the sole source of a necessary part.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/28/2001
• Decided 08/21/2001
• Published 08/21/2001

Judges

• RIPPLE, Circuit Judge., Before RIPPLE, KANNE and EVANS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Mark D. Roth, American Federation of Government Employees, Washington D.C., Robert K. Leyshon, Winstein, Kavensky & Wallace, Rock Island, IL, Kevin M. Grile (argued), American Federation of Government Employees, Chicago, IL, for plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Sushma Soni (argued), Department of Justice, Civil Division, Appellate Section, Washington, D.C., for defendant-appellee., Craig C. Martin, Jenner & Block, Chicago, IL, for intervenor-appellee.