A 連邦の 裁判官 has ordered a US 少数，小数派 商売／仕事 機関 to serve all races
NEW YORK (AP) - A 連邦の 裁判官 in Texas has ordered a 55-year-old U.S. 機関 that caters to 少数，小数派-owned 商売／仕事s to serve people 関わりなく race, 味方するing with white 商売／仕事 owners who （人命などを）奪う，主張するd the program 差別するd against them.
The 判決，裁定 was a 重要な victory for 保守的な 行動主義者s 行うing a far-範囲ing 合法的な 戦う／戦い against race-conscious workplace programs, 支えるd by the 最高裁判所's 判決，裁定 last June 取り去る／解体するing affirmative 活動／戦闘 programs in higher education.
支持するs for 少数，小数派-owned 商売／仕事s slammed the 判決，裁定 as a serious blow to 成果／努力s to level the playing field for 黒人／ボイコット, Hispanic and other 少数，小数派 商売／仕事 owners who 直面する 障壁s in 接近ing 財政／金融ing and other 資源s.
裁判官 示す T. Pittman of the U.S. 地区 法廷，裁判所 of the Northern 地区 of Texas, who was 任命するd by former 大統領 Donald Trump, 支配するd that the 少数，小数派 商売／仕事 開発 機関's 適格（性） parameters 侵害する／違反する the Fifth 改正's equal 保護 保証（人）s because they 推定する that racial 少数，小数派s are inherently disadvantaged.
The 機関, which is part of the U.S. 商務省, was first 設立するd during the Nixon 行政 to 演説（する）／住所 差別 in the 商売／仕事 world. The Biden 行政 広げるd its 範囲 and reach through the 組織／基盤／下部構造 投資 and 職業s 行為／法令／行動する in 2021, making it a 永久の 機関 and 増加するing its 基金ing to $550 million over five years.
The 機関, which h elps 少数，小数派-owned 商売／仕事s 得る 財政／金融ing and 政府 契約s, now operates in 33 明言する／公表するs and Puerto Rico. によれば its 年一回の 報告（する）／憶測s, the 機関 helped 商売／仕事s raise more than $1.2 billion in 資本／首都 in 会計年度 2022, 含むing more than $50 million for 黒人／ボイコット-owned 企業s, and more than $395 million for Hispanic-owned 商売／仕事s.
The logo for the 少数，小数派 商売／仕事 開発 機関 is seen on their website on a computer in New York, Wednesday, March 6, 2024. A 連邦の 裁判官 in Texas ordered the 55-year-old U.S. 機関 that caters to 少数，小数派-owned 商売／仕事s to serve people 関わりなく race, 味方するing with white busi ness owners who （人命などを）奪う，主張するd the program 差別するd against them. (AP Photo/Sydney Schaefer)
In a はっきりと worded, 93-page 判決，裁定, Pittman said that while the 機関's work may be ーするつもりであるd to "緩和する 適切な時期 gaps" 直面するd by 少数，小数派-owned 商売／仕事s, "two wrongs don't make a 権利. And the MBDA´s racial presumption is a wrong."
Pittman 支配するd that while the 機関 technically caters to any 商売／仕事 that can show their "social or 経済的な disadvantage," white people and others not 含むd in the "名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる） of preferred races" must 打ち勝つ a presumption that they are not disadvantaged. The 機関, he said, has been using the "憲法違反の presumption" for "fifty-five years too many."
"Today the clock runs out," Pittman wrote.
Dan Lennington, 副 counsel at the 保守的な Wisconsin 学校／設ける for 法律 & Liberty, which とじ込み／提出するd the 訴訟, said called it "a historic" victory that could 影響する／感情 dozens of 類似の 連邦の, 地元の and 明言する／公表する 政府 programs, which also consider people of 確かな races inherently disadvantaged. He said the 判決，裁定 will 可能にする his and other 保守的な groups to 的 those programs.
"We just think that this 決定／判定勝ち（する） is going to be 適用するd far and wide to hundreds of programs using 同一の language," Lennington said.
司法（官） Department lawyers 代表するing 少数，小数派 商売／仕事 開発 機関 拒絶する／低下するd to comment on the 判決，裁定, which can be 控訴，上告d to the 保守的な-leaning 5th U.S. 回路・連盟 of 控訴，上告s in New Orleans. In 法廷，裁判所 filings, the 司法（官） Department 特記する／引用するd congressional 研究 showing that 少数，小数派 商売／仕事 owners 直面する systemic 障壁s, 含むing 存在 否定するd 貸付金s at a 率 three times higher than nonminority 会社／堅いs, often receiving smaller 貸付金s and 存在 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金d higher 利益／興味 率s.
John F. Robinson, 大統領，／社長 of the 国家の 少数，小数派 商売／仕事 会議, said the 判決，裁定 is "a blow against 少数，小数派 owned 商売／仕事s," and does nothing to help 大多数-owned 商売／仕事s because they already enjoy 接近 to 連邦の 資源s through the Small 商売／仕事 行政.
"It has the 可能性のある of 損失ing the whole 少数，小数派 商売／仕事 部門 because there will be いっそう少なく service 利用できる to 少数，小数派-owned 商売／仕事s," Robinson said.
In a 類似の 判決，裁定 last year, a Tennessee 裁判官 struck 負かす／撃墜する a program run by the Small 商売／仕事 行政 that steered some 政府 契約s toward 少数，小数派-owned 商売／仕事s.
Several other 訴訟s have 的d 政府 and 私的な 部門 programs designed to 利益 少数，小数派-owned 商売／仕事s, 含むing the 事例／患者 against the Fearless 基金, an Atlanta-based organization that 供給するs 早期に 行う／開催する／段階 基金ing to 商売／仕事s owned by women of color.
Arian Simone, CEO of the Fearless 基金, 非難するd what she called dwindling 法人組織の／企業の かかわり合い to 公正，普通株主権 programs in the 直面する of the growing 合法的な challenges.
"事実上 every day there seems to be a new 合法的な 判決，裁定 that 半導体素子s away at our 試みる／企てる to の近くに 経済的な gaps that 存在する for people of color," she said in a 声明. "The inaction by those who （人命などを）奪う，主張する to be committed to 公正，普通株主権 has created the vacuum for this to happen."
But Alphonso David, 大統領，／社長 & CEO of The 全世界の 黒人／ボイコット 経済的な 会議, who is helping to 代表する the Fearless 基金, said the Texas 判決，裁定 is not やむを得ず predictive of how those other 事例／患者s will play out.
He pointed to another 判決，裁定 Wednesday in which a 保守的な group lost its 試みる／企てる to 復帰させる a 訴訟 again st 製薬の 巨大（な） Pfizer over a fellowship program for 黒人／ボイコット, Latino and Native American professionals.
The New York-based 2nd U.S. 回路・連盟 法廷，裁判所 of 控訴，上告s 支配するd Wednesday that the group, Do No 害（を与える）, 欠如（する）d standing because it didn't identify the 原告／提訴人s by 指名する. David said the Fearless 基金 is making a 類似の argument against the American 同盟 for Equal 権利s, the 保守的な group that とじ込み／提出するd its 訴訟 on に代わって of 匿名の／不明の women.
Do No 害（を与える） Chairman Dr. Stanley Goldfarb said he was "disappointed by the 法廷，裁判所´s 決定／判定勝ち（する）" and would continue to 追求する 控訴，上告s.
Pfizer said it was pleased with the 判決，裁定 and is "proud of its かかわり合い to 多様制, 公正，普通株主権 and 傾向." にもかかわらず winning 解雇／（訴訟の）却下 of the 初めの 訴訟, the company changed the 基準 of its fellowship program last year to open it to all races.
DEI 支持するs celebrated a separate 勝利，勝つ on Tuesday when a Florida 法律 that 限界s discussions on race and 多様制 in the workplace was 支配するd to be unconstitutiona l by a 連邦の 控訴，上告s 法廷，裁判所.
"I think what we´re going to see over the next months - and years - is just a flurry of 訴訟s from different directions, with 保守的な and 自由主義の 裁判官s around the country reaching 全く contradictory 決定／判定勝ち（する）s to one another," said David Glasgow, (n)役員／(a)執行力のある director of the Meltzer 中心 for 多様制, 傾向, and Belonging at New York University´s School of 法律. "And that 最終的に it´s going to have to 勝利，勝つd its way 支援する to the 最高裁判所."
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AP Race & Ethnicity reporter Graham 物陰／風下 Brewer and AP 商売／仕事 Writer Haleluya Hadero 与える／捧げるd to this story.
