LA Metro defeats contractor’s Section 1983 claim based on alleged denial of constitutional rights due to denial of prequalification for design-build subway project

Client(s) Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation

Jones Day succeeded in obtaining a dismissal with prejudice of a federal civil rights action filed by Tutor-Saliba-Perini, J.V., and others against the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) asserting among other things that MTA had improperly denied certain entities prequalification, had been engaged in baseless litigation against Tutor entities for twenty years, and had effectuated an improper de facto debarment.

Tutor-Saliba-Perini, J.V., et al. v. Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, CV-13-6795-GHK (C.D. Cal.)