Appeals Court Imposes Injunction on SBA Over Discrimination Against White Males
The government is trying to allocate limited COVID relief funds on the basis of race and sex...
(Jon Styf, The Center Square) A federal appeals court ruled in favor of a Tennessee bar and restaurant owner, granting an injunction against the U.S. Small Business Administration from prioritizing COVID-19 relief funds based upon the restaurant owner’s race and sex.
Two of the three judges on the panel agreed with the injunction, which is subject to appeal. Tennessee U.S. District Judge Travis McDonough ruled last week against the lawsuit, filed by the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, a nonprofit conservative law firm, on behalf of Antonio Vitolo, owner of Jake’s Bar and Grill in Harriman.
WILL appealed the decision. The lawsuit was filed May 12 in the Eastern District of Tennessee.
“The government is trying to allocate limited COVID relief funds on the basis of race and sex,” WILL President and General Counsel Rick Esenberg said. “The Court of Appeals held it cannot and that we are likely to succeed on our claim that this program is unconstitutional.”
Vitolo applied to receive federal relief from the $28.6 billion Restaurant Revitalization Fund that was created as part of the American Rescue Plan Act.
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