Equal Protection Project Files Brief Opposing Progressive Insurance Blacks-Only Grant Program

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EPP files brief in federal district court in the Northern District of Ohio in support of the Plaintiffs who are challenging a contractual grant program open ONLY to Black businesspersons

) has been following a case in Cleveland involving a contractual grant program sponsored by Progressive Insurance and designed to benefit small businesses, as long as the owners are Black., began in August of last year when Freedom Truck Dispatch LLC and its owner Nathan Roberts, who is White, sued Progressive, with the help ofProgressive Preferred Insurance Company provides commercial insurance to commercial trucking and delivery companies.

The Court’s potential grant of Defendants’ motions on this ground may negatively impact the efforts of EPP and other similar civil rights groups to vindicate constitutional and statutory protections against racial discrimination, by carving out a massive loophole to characterize discriminatory conduct as protected speech.

Progressive also argues that this case should be dismissed on standing grounds because “Plaintiffs fail to plausibly allege any injury-in-fact.” The Court’s potential grant of Progressive’s motion to dismiss on this ground would be equally damaging, as a finding of no alleged harm in a case of alleged racially discriminatory conduct will help normalize racial discrimination and render the very real, irreparable harm that flows from racial discrimination irremediable….., 709 F. Supp.

The question here is whether 1981 prohibits racial discrimination in private employment against whites as well as nonwhites. . . . Georgia Federal Judge Rules Racially Discriminatory Contracting Is “Speech and Expression” Protected By 1st Amendment – Emergency Appeal Filed

 

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