Rothe Development Corp. v. United States Department of Defense

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that “deference should be given to congressional findings that discrimination has continued and must be addressed”
• stating that federal racial classifications should not be “rigidly held to the standards set forth in Cro-son ”
• noting that the narrow tailoring factors discussed in Croson should not be “applied in lockstep conformity with Croson ”
• arguing that “Croson’s mandate that a local government make specific findings regarding specific minorities in specific industries” should not be applied “without alteration, to the acts of Congress”
• noting that “[i]f Congress is to be allowed a broad vision of the nation’s problems, it seems only logical that it be allowed some measure of deference in addressing those problems”
• noting that “deference should be given to congressional findings that discrimination has continued and must be addressed, as evidenced by the repeated renewal of the preference program at issue in this case”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).