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Justice Department lawyers representing Minority Business Development Agency declined to comment on the ruling, which can be appealed to the conservative-leaning 5th U.S. Circuit of Appeals in New ...
The agency itself, formed in 1969 by then-President Richard Nixon as the Office of Minority Business Enterprise and made permanent in 2021, was the primary defendant in the case.
In March 2024, Pittman ruled that the Minority Business Development Agency was wrong to consider historic discrimination based on race in its operations, citing Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard. [18] [19]
City of Richmond v. J.A. Croson Co., 488 U.S. 469 (1989), was a case in which the United States Supreme Court held that the minority set-aside program of Richmond, Virginia, which gave preference to minority business enterprises (MBE) in the awarding of municipal contracts, was unconstitutional under the Equal Protection Clause.
Companies, governments and venture capitalists have been hit with complaints and in some cases federal lawsuits over the constitutionality of supporting minority- or Black-owned businesses.
[4] [5] After graduating, Phillips worked as a minority business program manager at IBM, eventually becoming the director of its federal small business program. [6] Before becoming a member of the Maryland House of Delegates, he worked as the Director of the Minority Business Development Agency Business Center in Baltimore, Maryland .
The Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) is an agency in the United States Department of Commerce that promotes growth and competitiveness of the United States' minority-owned businesses, including Hispanic and Latino American, Asian Pacific American, African American, and Native American businesses. [1]
A conservative law firm filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday alleging that the State Bar of Wisconsin's “diversity clerkship program” unconstitutionally discriminates based on race. Past ...