CONSTRUCTORS ASSOCIATION OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA, Appellant,
v.
Juanita KREPS, Secretary of Commerce of the United States of America, Milton J. Shapp, Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and Richard Caliguiri, Mayor of the City of Pittsburgh.
United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued January 3, 1978.
Decided March 7, 1978.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Charles R. Volk, Jane A. Lewis, Joseph Mack, III, Thorp, Reed & Armstrong, Pittsburgh, Pa., for appellant.
Blair A. Griffith, U. S. Atty., Pittsburgh, Pa., Robert J. Hickey, G. Brocjwek Heylin, Kirlin, Campbell & Keating, Washington, D. C., for Associated General Contractors of America, amicus curiae.
Robert J. Bray, Jr., Walter H. Flamm, Jr., Alfred J. D'Angelo, Jr., Cunniff, Bray & McAleese, Bala Cynwyd, Pa., for General Building Contractors Association, Inc., amicus curiae.
John W. Finley, Jr., Brashich & Finley, New York City, for The Mid-Atlantic Legal Foundation, amicus curiae.
Edward C. First, Jr., Jason S. Shapiro, McNees, Wallace & Nurick, Harrisburg, Pa., for The Associated Pennsylvania Constructors, amicus curiae.
Drew S. Days, III, Asst. Atty. Gen., Brian K. Landsberg, Jessica Dunsay Silver, Vincent F. O'Rourke, Jr., Attys. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Robert S. Fastov, Kenneth Oestreicher, Dayle Ginsburg, Attys., Economic Development Administration, U. S. Dept. of Commerce, Washington, D. C., for appellee, Juanita Kreps.
Patricia G. Miller, Asst. Atty. Gen., Michael Louik, Deputy Atty. Gen., Robert P. Kane, Atty. Gen., Pittsburgh, Pa., for appellee, Milton J. Shapp.
Eugene B. Strassburger, III, Deputy City Sol. Mead J. Mulvihill, Jr., City Sol., Pittsburgh, Pa., for appellee, Richard S. Caliguiri.
Bolger & Picker, Philadelphia, Pa., for The Roofing Sheet Metal Contractors' Association of Philadelphia and Vicinity, amicus curiae; Steven R. Waxman, Philadelphia, Pa., of counsel.
Before ADAMS, GIBBONS and GARTH, Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.
OPINION OF THE COURT
ADAMS, Circuit Judge.
The question in this case is whether the district court abused its discretion in declining to issue a preliminary injunction enjoining the United States Department of Commerce, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the City of Pittsburgh from complying with a federal statute which requires 10% of all federal funds in specified public works projects to be expended on bids tendered by "minority business enterprises...
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