Viejo v. United States

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that “[b]oth statistical and anecdotal evidence are appropriate in the strict scrutiny calculus,” but “anecdotal evidence by itself is not”
• “We cannot merely recite statements made by members of Congress alleging a finding of discriminatory effects and the need to address those effects .... ”
• “The geographic scope of Congress’ reach in this regard is ‘society-wide’ and therefore nationwide”
• “[t]he long history of discrimination in, and affecting the public construction procurement market-despite efforts dating back at least to the enactment in 1958[sie] of the SBA to employ race-neutral measures ... justifies race conscious action”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).