Judge denies request to halt priority status for women and minority restaurant owners seeking aid
May 24, 2021 / 4:14 PM / CBS/AP Restaurant owners on growing their 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
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