Legal Opinion
Jana-Rock Construction, Inc. v. New York State Department of Economic Development
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided February 21, 2006No. Docket No. 04-6328PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SACK, Circuit Judge.
Rocco Luiere, Jr., “the son of a Spanish mother whose parents were born in Spain,” owns seventy-five percent of the shares in Jana-Rock Construction, Inc. *200See Compl. ¶¶ 3, 4. Luiere and Jana-Rock bring a challenge under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to New York Executive Law Article 15-A, New York’s “affirmative action” statute for minority-owned businesses, because the law does not include in its definition of “Hispanic” people of Spanish or Portuguese descent unless they also come from Latin America. The plaintiffs allege that by distinguishing…
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