Johnny Gabriel Lazalde v. the State of Texas

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that a federal set-aside program which, on its face, provided financial incentives to hire minority subcontractors would be subject to strict scrutiny
• holding that strict scrutiny applies to “any racial classification subjecting [a] person to unequal treatment”
• holding that facial racial classifications imposed by the federal government should also be subject to strict scrutiny review
• holding that strict scrutiny applied to government’s use of race-based presumptions in identifying preferred subcontractors for government projects
• holding that equal protection jurisprudence requires the application of \strict scrutiny\ to all racial classifications
• holding that “of course” plaintiff had standing to challenge lost contract when contract loss was actually caused by minority-preference system

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).