Ritchey Produce Co., Inc. v. Ohio Dept. of Adm. Serv.

Citations

• 1999 Ohio 262
• 85 Ohio St. 3d 194

Syllabus

State government—Provisions of R.C. 125.081 requiring that approximately fifteen percent of state's purchasing contracts be set aside for competitive bidding by minority business enterprises only are constitutional—Provisions of R.C. 122.71(E) defining \minority business enterprise\ with explicit reference to race are constitutional as applied to deny minority-business-enterprise status to business owned and controlled by person of Lebanese ancestry—Ohio's Minority Business Enterprise Program as it relates to purchasing contracts is constitutional.