Hunt Paving Co. v. City of Indianapolis

ENTRY GRANTING DEFENDANTS’ MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT AND DENYING PLAINTIFFS’ MOTION FOR PARTIAL SUMMARY JUDGMENT AS TO LIABILITY

TINDER, District Judge.

Plaintiffs brought this action seeking to challenge the constitutionality of Defendants’ procedure for awarding municipal construction contracts. Plaintiffs alleged that Defendants’ affirmative action plan unlawfully denied Plaintiffs equal protection of the laws in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Defendants replied that Plaintiffs lacked standing to prosecute that claim and, alternatively, that…