{"id":390047,"date":"2026-07-29T02:43:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T02:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/390047\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T02:43:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T02:43:18","slug":"federal-judge-strikes-down-city-of-houstons-minority-woman-small-business-program-as-unconstitutional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/390047\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal judge strikes down City of Houston’s minority, woman, small business program as unconstitutional"},"content":{"rendered":"

Judge bars city from administering “race-conscious” portion of program<\/p>\n

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HOUSTON \u2013 A federal judge has ruled the City of Houston\u2019s Minority Women and Small Business Enterprise Program is unconstitutional.<\/p>\n

Court records show U.S. District Judge David Hittner ruled against the City of Houston in a lawsuit brought against the city by two landscaping companies. <\/p>\n

The companies challenged the city using racial preferences in local government contracts.<\/p>\n

In his ruling, Hittner barred the city from administering the \u201crace-conscious\u201d portion of the program or using similar racial preferences in the award of public contracts. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe racially discriminatory aspect of Defendant City of Houston Texas\u2019s Minority Women, and Small Business Enterprise program is declared unconstitutional under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution,\u201d the judgement reads.<\/p>\n

Copyright 2026 by KPRC Click2Houston – All rights reserved.<\/p>\n

About the AuthorChristian Terry<\/a><\/p>\n

Christian Terry covered digital news in Tyler and Wichita Falls before returning to the Houston area where he grew up. He is passionate about weather and the outdoors and often spends his days off on the water fishing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Judge bars city from administering “race-conscious” portion of program Generic courtroom – lightbox KPRC (KSAT) HOUSTON \u2013 A…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,1932,137429,137428],"class_list":["post-390047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-lawsuit","tag-small-business-program","tag-unconstitutional"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}