Disregarding intent: using statistical evidence to provide greater protection of the laws.
I. INTRODUCTION The year is 2015. The Governor of California has recently announced the startling statistic that fifty percent of the state government construction contracts awarded this year went to minority-owned businesses. This percentage is extremely high given that minority-owned businesses averaged roughly fifteen percent of such...

Minority Supplier Development Council Names Exelon Corporation of the Year.
Parent Company of PECO Recognized for Innovative Minority Business Development PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- The Minority Supplier Development Council (MSDC) of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware (PA-NJ-DE) recently named Exelon, the parent company of PECO, as its 2006 National Corporation of the Year for exemplary minority...

Eight Firms Named Winners of Greater Baltimore Committee's 2006 'Bridging the Gap' Minority Business Awards.
BALTIMORE, Nov. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Eight companies have been named as winners of the Greater Baltimore Committee's 2006 Bridging the Gap Awards honoring minority-owned and women-owned firms for achievement and others for their efforts to strengthen minority business opportunities in the Baltimore region. Minority-owned business winners range...

The impact of Croson on equal protection law and policy.
I. Introduction In many respects the Supreme Court's 1989 decision, City of Richmond v. J.A Croson Co.,(1) was the most significant civil rights case of the nineteen eighties. It set new standards of review in equal protection cases and quickly became a decisive precedent in the areas...

NMBC to Honor AOL-Time Warner, Citigroup, Turner Construction At Annual Awards Luncheon.
Weil, Gotshal & Manges' Executive Partner to Chair Luncheon NEW YORK, Jan. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Minority Business Council, Inc. will honor America Online-Time Warner, Inc., Citigroup Inc. and Turner Construction Corp. for their support of minority entrepreneurship at the Council's 21st Annual Business...

Jason Miller Named SBA Washington District's Small Business Journalist of the Year.
FALLS CHURCH, Va., Feb. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Jason Miller, editor of Set-Aside Alert, the newsletter on federal minority contracting, was named the U.S. Small Business Administration Washington District Office's Small Business Journalist of the Year today. This award recognizes efforts to increase the public's understanding of the...

Sen. Kerry's Small Business Priorities.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Yesterday, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), incoming Chair of the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, outlined some of his top priorities for the 110th Congress by introducing four bills that will help small business owners around the country. These bills will improve the government's...

Ameristar Launches Online Supplier Registration.
Minority- and Women-Owned Businesses Encouraged to Participate LAS VEGAS, Jan. 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Ameristar Casinos, Inc., today launched a new automated supplier registration process through the company's website at http://www.ameristar.com/. The new online procedure will streamline bidding and contracting with vendors and service-providers for a wide variety...

A quota by any other name.
JUST recently, pundits were ringing the death knell for affirmative action. With the California Civil Rights Initiative getting under way and a new Republican majority in Congress, it seemed as if the era of quotas and preferences was at an end. But the assault on affirmative action has yet to...

Meeting the mark; a city program for minority- and women-owned businesses is being revamped. Some disagree on how to best measure its success.
Now under scrutiny, a city initiative aimed at helping minority- and women-owned construction contractors continues to thrive at divvying up public contracts more equitably'. Few of those companies, however, become successful enough through the public program to "graduate" from it. And officials and advocates disagree on whether that is...