A Judge Has Decided to Uphold the Restaurant Aid Priority for Female and Minority-Owned Businesses
A federal judge has ruled against a conservative legal group that sought an immediate halt to the priority status for restaurants and bars owned by women and certain minorities in President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 relief package.
U.S. District Judge Travis McDonough in Knoxville, Tennessee, issued the opinion denying a temporary restraining order last week in the lawsuit brought by the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty. The group is appealing the decision.
The judge wrote that “Congress has gathered myriad evidence suggesting that small businesses owned by minorities … have suffered more severely than other kinds of businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic, and that the Government’s early attempts at general economic stimulus … disproportionately failed to help those businesses directly because of historical discrimination patterns.”
