WILL challenged federal Restaurant Revitalization Fund on behalf of Tennessee restaurant owner
Antonio Vitolo, Plaintiff. Photo from WILL.
The News: A divided panel of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an injunction pending appeal, Thursday, in a federal lawsuit filed by the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL) challenging the explicit requirement to prioritize COVID relief to restaurants based on race and sex. WILL filed the federal lawsuit in the Eastern District of Tennessee on behalf of
Antonio Vitolo, a Tennessee restaurant owner, whose application for federal relief is not being processed until minority and female applications are fulfilled.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) 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 historical discrimination patterns.