This week, the Department of Justice (DOJ) sided with a case filed by Mid-America Milling and Bagshaw Trucking, in which the companies claim they lost ground transportation infrastructure work to ...

On April 9, 2024, the U.S. Department of Transportation published its Final Rule to the Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) and Airport Concession DBE (ACDBE) programs. The Final Rule is the most ...

Any disadvantaged business enterprises that are not recertified as DBE firms under the U.S. Dept. of Transportation’s new standards can be terminated from projects for good cause, DOT officials said ...

The case at issue, Mid-America Milling Co. et al. v. U.S. Department of Transportation et al., was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky in October 2023 by two ...

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A court has shelved a lawsuit seeking to dismantle an affirmative action program on federal procurement, though the case led to policy changes that favored the plaintiffs. Nearly three years after two ...

A federal judge overseeing an Indiana contractor’s case against the U.S. Department of Transportation said its argument was no longer in dispute after the department changed its framework around ...

President Donald Trump’s rollback of diversity programs has now hit a longtime mainstay of projects that use U.S. Department of Transportation funds. The more than 1,300 Minnesota small businesses ...

WITHOUT ACTION. NEW TONIGHT SOME IOWA CONTRACTORS AND ENGINEERING FIRMS ARE PREPARING TO LOSE A BIG BUSINESS ADVANTAGE ONCE THE SHUTDOWN ENDS. KCCI PEPPER SPOKE WITH THE IOWA DEPARTMENT OF ...

For months as the new presidential and Gov. Mike Braun administrations announced waves of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion purges, there was a major program long embedded into state and federal ...

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