Jorgensen v. City of Clarksburg

In an effort to preserve local jobs, government and community leaders in Harrison County, West Virginia, structured a loan of $8,500,000 from public and private sources which enabled the Anchor Hocking Glass Company to purchase and renovate a glass manufacturing facility that was slated to close. Of that amount, state and local entities provided $4,500,000. The remaining $4,000,000 came from the Department of Housing and Urban Development ("HUD"), an agency of the federal government, which made an Urban Development Action Grant ("UDAG") to the City of Clarksburg, which then lent the money to Anchor Hocking. Pursuant to Section 5310 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, 42 U.S.C. § 5301 et seq. (1988 & Supp. II 1990) ("HDCA"), which governs the grant, plant employees whose continued occupation was made possible by the UDAG grant were to be paid minimum wages as provided by the Davis-Bacon Act, 40 U.S.C. § 276a to 276a-5 (1988).