Legal Opinion
Milwaukee County Pavers Ass'n v. Fiedler
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided January 15, 1991No. Nos. 90-1747, 90-1793PublishedCited by 49 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
An association of highway contractors in Wisconsin brought suit to enjoin, as a form of affirmative action or reverse discrimination that violates the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, programs by which the State of Wisconsin sets aside certain highway contracts for firms that are certified as “disadvantaged business enterprises” and also requires highway contractors to give preferential treatment to subcontractors that are so certified. The reason the latter as well as former feature of the programs harms the contractors is that it both requires them…
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