Milwaukee County Pavers Ass'n v. Fiedler

ORDER

CRABB, Chief Judge.

This case concerns plaintiffs’ constitutional challenge to Wis.Stat. § 84.076 which provides that the State of Wisconsin should reserve $4 million in construction contracts for “disadvantaged” businesses. In an order dated February 27, 1989, 707 F.Supp. 1016, I found for the purpose of deciding plaintiffs’ motion for a preliminary injunction that businesses were deemed eligible for the disadvantaged business program on the basis of an irrebuttable presumption that those of a specified race, national origin, and gender were socially disadvantaged. I thus determined that…