Western States Paving Co., Inc. v. Washington State Department Of Transportation

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “a disparity between the proportion of DBE firms in the State [ ] and the percentage of contracting funds awarded to DBEs on the race-neutral contracts” was “insufficient, standing alone, to establish the existence of discrimination against DBEs”
• noting that “Congress also explicitly relied upon a Department of Justice study [the Appendix ] that documented the discriminatory hurdles that minorities must overcome to secure federally funded contracts”
• “The burden of justifying different treatment by ethnicity . . . is always on the government.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).