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A federal judge in Texas says that by excluding White-owned businesses from its programs, the Minority Business Development Agency is violating their constitutional rights.
Another court case is upending how programs focused on helping minority-owned businesses qualify for those initiatives.
Three White-owned businesses sued the Minority Business Development Agency because they were denied services that could help their businesses.
In a decision handed down on Tuesday, a U.S. district court judge in Texas ruled that the agency violated the constitutional rights of those three businesses. The judge cited the Supreme Court decision that declared Harvard’s and the University of North Carolina’s race-based affirmative action programs violated equal protection guarantees in the U.S. Constitution.
In July, another court ruling used that same Supreme Court decision to force the Small Business Administration to drop its so-called “rebuttable presumption” process to certify companies as small, disadvantaged business so they could join the 8(a) set-aside program.
