Legal Opinion
Hershell Gill Consulting Engineers, Inc. v. Miami-Dade County
District Court, S.D. Florida
Decided August 24, 2004No. 98-2300-CIV-JORDANPublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Amended Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law 1
JORDAN, District Judge.
A little more than six years ago, the Eleventh Circuit upheld Judge Kenneth Ryskamp’s ruling that Miami-Dade County’s Minority and Women Business Enterprise (MWBE) programs violated the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause as applied to sectors of the construction contracting industry. See Engineering Contractors Ass’n v. Metropolitan Dade County, 943 F.Supp. 1546 (S.D.Fla.1996), aff'd, 122 F.3d 895 (11th Cir.1997) (EGA). Despite this adverse decision, Miami-Dade County did not amend, modify, or repeal the…
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