Constitutional Law
Aug. 17, 2010
San Francisco Has Some Explaining To Do
San Francisco's practice of providing preferential treatment for city contract awards based on race and gender faces the ultimate test, by Randy Parent of Liebert Cassidy Whitmore
On Aug. 2, 2010, the state Supreme Court issued a decision in the long-running Proposition 209 challenge to the city and county of San Francisco ordinance that provides preferential treatment in the award of city contracts based on race and gender. Coral Construction v. City and County of San Francisco 2010 S.O.S. 4449. The court rejected two of the city's three arguments against the Proposition 209 challenge and remanded the ca...
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