Jorge Duran-Quezada v. Clark Construction Group, LLC

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UNPUBLISHED PER CURIAM OPINION filed. Originating case number: 8:13-cv-02963-JFM. Copies to all parties and the district court/agency. [999425932]. [14-1069]

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UNPUBLISHED
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

No. 14-1069

JORGE DURAN-QUEZADA;
CASTRO,

CARLOS

GALLEGOS;

MARCELINO

MERCADO

Plaintiffs - Appellants,
v.
CLARK CONSTRUCTION GROUP, LLC; BALFOUR BEATTY CONSTRUCTION,
LLC; MANGANARO MIDATLANTIC, LLC,
Defendants - Appellees.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of
Maryland, at Greenbelt.
J. Frederick Motz, Senior District
Judge. (8:13-cv-02963-JFM)

Submitted:

August 21, 2014

Decided:

August 29, 2014

Before WYNN and FLOYD, Circuit Judges, and DAVIS, Senior Circuit
Judge.

Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

Stephen Christopher Swift, Charity C. Emeronye Swift, SWIFT &
SWIFT, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, PLLC, Alexandria, Virginia, for
Appellants.
Michael J. Schrier, Katherine A. Calogero, JACKSON
KELLY PLLC, Washington, DC, for Appellees.

Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

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PER CURIAM:
Jorge

Duran-Quezada,

Carlos

Gallegos,

and

Marcelino

Mercado Castro (collectively, “Plaintiffs”) appeal the district
court’s order granting the Defendants’ motion to dismiss for
failure

to

state

a

claim

under

Fed.

R.

Civ.

P.

12(b)(6).

Plaintiffs argue that the Davis-Bacon Act, 40 U.S.C.A. §§ 31413144, 3146, 3147 (West 2005 & Supp. 2014), confers a private
cause of action.

Finding no error, we affirm.

We review de novo a district court’s order dismissing
a complaint for failure to state a claim, assuming that all
well-pleaded nonconclusory factual allegations in the complaint
are true.

Aziz v. Alcolac, Inc., 658 F.3d 388, 391 (4th Cir.

2011).

When determining whether a statute implicitly creates a

private

cause

of

action,

we

focus

on

Congressional

Thompson v. Thompson, 484 U.S. 174, 179 (1988).

intent.

“[U]nless this

congressional intent [to create a private cause of action] can
be

inferred

from

the

language

of

the

statute,

the

statutory

structure, or some other source, the essential predicate for
implication of a private remedy simply does not exist.”

Nw.

Airlines, Inc. v. Transp. Workers Union, 451 U.S. 77, 94 (1981).
The majority of our sister Circuits to address this
question have concluded that “neither the language, the history,
nor

the

structure

of

the

[Davis-Bacon

implication of a private right of action.”
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Act]

supports

the

United States ex

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rel. Glynn v. Capeletti Bros., Inc., 621 F.2d 1309, 1317 (5th
Cir. 1980); see Gronchowski v. Phoenix Constr., 318 F.3d 80, 85
(2d Cir. 2003) (collecting cases); Bane v. Radio Corp. of Am.,
811

F.2d

1504

(4th

Capeletti Bros.).

Cir.

1987)

(No.

86-2036)

(agreeing

with

While the decisions of other circuits are not

binding, their reasoning is persuasive, and we conclude that the
district court did not err in dismissing Plaintiffs’ complaint.
Accordingly, we affirm the district court’s order.
dispense

with

oral

argument

because

the

facts

and

We

legal

contentions are adequately presented in the material before this
court and argument will not aid the decisional process.
AFFIRMED

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