M. C. WEST, INC. v. LEWIS

No. 80-1049.

522 F.Supp. 338 (1981)

M. C. WEST, INC., et al., Plaintiffs, v. Andrew L. LEWIS, Jr., Secretary, United States Department of Transportation et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, M. D. Tennessee, Columbia Division.

August 24, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward C. Blank, II, N. Houston Parks, Columbia, Tenn., for plaintiffs.

Hal D. Hardin, U. S. Atty., William M. Leech, Jr., State Atty. Gen., Donald L. Corlew, Deputy Atty. Gen., Nashville, Tenn., M. Taylor Aspinwall, U. S. Dept. of Justice, Civ. Rights Div., Kenneth N. Weinstein, U. S. Dept. of Transp., Washington, D. C., Richard S. Ugelow, Civ. Rights Div., U. S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for defendants.


MEMORANDUM

WISEMAN, District Judge.

Plaintiffs, highway construction contractors, claim that Department of Transportation regulations, which provide for use of Minority Business Enterprise [MBE] contract goals, 49 C.F.R. § 23.45 as amended on April 27, 1981, violate their constitutional rights to due process and equal protection under the fifth and fourteenth amendments and their statutory rights under 23 U.S.C. § 112 (1976), 42 U.S.C. § 1983...

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