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CORAL CONST. CO. v. KING COUNTY

No. 90-35066.

941 F.2d 910 (1991)

CORAL CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, an Oregon Corporation; Oregon Columbia Chapter of the Associated General Contractors of America, Inc., an Oregon non-profit corporation, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. KING COUNTY, a legal subdivision of the State of Washington, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided August 8, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John F. Bradach, Charles F. Adams, Stoel, Rives, Boley, Jones & Grey, Portland, Ore., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Jack G. Johnson, Deputy Pros. Atty., King County, Seattle, Wash., for defendant-appellee.

Patricia S. Rose, Martha E. Raymond, Seattle, Wash., Samuel L. Walters, Baltimore, Md., for amici curiae Northwest Women's Law Center and N.A.A.C.P.

William Bradford Reynolds, Thomas G. Olp, Ross & Hardies, Washington, D.C., for amici curiae Associated General Contractors of America, Inc.

Ronald A. Zumbrun, John H. Findley, Sacramento, Cal., for amici curiae Pacific Legal Foundation.

Before SKOPIL, O'SCANNLAIN and FERNANDEZ, Circuit Judges.

O'SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judge:

We must decide whether King County's Minority- and Women-Owned Business Enterprise set-aside program for public contract awards violates the equal protection clause of the fourteenth amendment.

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In 1981, King County, Washington (which encompasses the city of Seattle) implemented a program establishing a preference for the use of minority-owned businesses (MBEs) and women-owned...

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