Orbital ATK suit against DARPA dismissedA lawsuit filed by Orbital ATK against a DARPA satellite servicing project that Orbital believed was in direct competition with its own servicing project has been thrown out.
Essentially, the judge ruled that the suit had no real basis in law.
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A lawsuit filed by Orbital ATK against a DARPA satellite servicing project that Orbital believed was in direct competition with its own servicing project has been thrown out.
Essentially, the judge ruled that the suit had no real basis in law.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
This comes from that “bastion of accuracy,” Wikipedia, but:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Administrative_Procedure_Act_(United_States)
“In order to protect citizens, the APA also grants the judiciary oversight over all agency actions.”
This suggests that any agency’s actions are subject to judiciary oversight, not just policy violations. Apparently, this court has decided that is not true.
From the Space News article: “The court also concluded that the national space policy was not subject to the Administrative Procedure Act, the law Orbital ATK claimed DARPA was in violation of by failing to abide by the policy. Such policies, the court ruled, do not have the force of law.”
Apparently, agencies may freely act in violation of their own policies without judiciary oversight, and no one may complain about such violations of policy, at least not in the courts, whose sole job it is to be a disinterested third party in order to peacefully resolve disputes.
If we cannot count on government agencies to follow their own policies, what good are those policies? If we cannot count on the courts to resolve disputes, what good are the courts?
I think that the court used the wrong criteria in order to allow another government entity to continue on with its wishes.
Apparently, agencies may freely act in violation of their own policies without judiciary oversight, and no one may complain about such violations of policy, at least not in the courts
Unless it is environmental groups suing the EPA, then policies like this must be enforced while paying out huge settlements to environmental groups.