ASSOC. GEN. CONTR. OF CAL. v. CITY & COUNTY OF S.F.

No. 85-2420.

813 F.2d 922 (1987)

ASSOCIATED GENERAL CONTRACTORS OF CALIFORNIA, INC., et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO, Defendant-Appellee, and San Francisco Black Chamber of Commerce, et al., Intervenors-Defendants/Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided March 23, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John H. Findley, Sacramento, Cal., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Mara E. Rosales, San Francisco, Cal., for defendant-appellee.

Robert L. Harris, San Francisco, Cal., William C. McNeill, III, Oakland, Cal., for intervenors-defendants/appellees.

Before HUG, BEEZER and KOZINSKI, Circuit Judges.


KOZINSKI, Circuit Judge:

We consider a challenge to an ordinance of the City and County of San Francisco (the city) giving various preferences to minority-owned, women-owned and locally-owned business enterprises (MBEs, WBEs and LBEs). The district court upheld the ordinance, rejecting claims that it violates the city's charter, federal civil rights laws and the equal protection clause of the fourteenth amendment.

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