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HOUSTON CONTRACTORS ASS'N v. METRO. TRANSIT AUTH.

Civil Action No. H-93-3651.

945 F.Supp. 1013 (1996)

HOUSTON CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION, Plaintiff, v. METROPOLITAN TRANSIT AUTHORITY OF HARRIS COUNTY, Defendant.

United States District Court, S.D. Texas.

Order Clarifying Injunction May 8, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas C. Fitzhugh, III, Fitzhugh & Thompson, Houston, TX, David B. Dickinson, Ewalt & Dickinson, and Stuart M. Nelkin, Nelkin & Nelkin, Houston, TX, for Plaintiffs.

Rex D. VanMiddlesworth, Mayor Day Caldwell and Keeton, and Gene L. Locke, City of Houston Legal Dept, Houston, TX, for Defendants.

OPINION ON PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION

HUGHES, District Judge.

1. Introduction.

An association of local construction contractors has sued Houston's Metropolitan Transit Authority for using race and sex as criteria in its contracting process. The contractors complain that Metro's use of these factors in its bidding and contract administration is an instance of a government's treating similar people differently in violation of the constitutional...

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