United States Seventh Circuit

Summary judgment for defendant-state in a suit alleging that a program designed to increase the participation of socially and economically disadvantaged individuals in Illinois highway construction subcontracting is unconstitutional is affirmed where the state had a compelling interest in remedying past discrimination and did not exceed its grant of authority under federal law.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/13/2006
• Decided 01/08/2007
• Published 01/08/2007

Judges

• WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge., Before COFFEY, KANNE, and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Thomas R. Olson (argued), Thomas R. Olson & Associates, St. Paul, MN, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Erik G. Light (argued), Office of the Attorney General, Kevin J. Burke, Hinshaw & Culbertson, Chicago, IL, PHB, Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Washington, DC, for Defendants-Appellees., Charles E. Leggott, Dept. of Justice, Civil Rights Div., Appellate Section, Washington, DC, for Defendant, U.S. Dept. of Transp.