The Cone Corporation, J.W. Conner & Sons, Cone Constructors, Inc., Dallas 1 Construction & Develp. Etc. v. Hillsborough County, Larry J. Brown

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• holding that a “glaring 10.78% disparity between the percentage of minority contractors in the County and the percentage of County construction dollars awarded to minorities . . . clearly constitutes a prima facie case of discrimination”
• approvingly noting goal of 25% was flexible because municipality’s “working goal” was only 19% and was not applicable to every project
• observing as evidence of narrow tailoring fact that ordinance grants only 1% goal to groups not widely discriminated against in Hillsborough County, Florida, such as Eskimos, Asian Americans, and Native Americans
• noting evidence of complaints made to the county regarding discrimination by prime contractors
• upholding law which targeted benefits to MBEs which are disadvantaged in terms of size, volume of business and number of employees and therefore most likely to have been discriminated against, as opposed to large and successful MBEs
• statistical disparity between \the total percentage of minorities involved in construction and the work going to minorities\ shows that \the racial classification in the County plan [was] necessary\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).