Brightline, Siemens Defeat Buy America Challenge to Railway (1)

Brightline West and Siemens Mobility Inc. won dismissal of Alstom Transportation Inc.'s lawsuit alleging that a Southern California-Las Vegas high-speed railway project violated Buy America requirements.

Alstom lacks standing to challenge the US Federal Railroad Administration’s issuance of a Buy America waiver because it couldn’t show a likelihood Alstom would have accepted its bid to provide equipment if the agency barred Siemens, which planned to build trains in Germany, Judge Jia M. Cobb of the US District Court for the District of Columbia said in a Tuesday order.

The railway project, which would allow travel between Southern California and Las ...