The decision is a huge victory for a coalition of minority- and women-owned businesses and trade organizations, which intervened to defend the DBE Program when it became clear that the…

A Travis County District Court today granted a temporary injunction blocking Texas Comptroller Kelly Hancock’s recent changes to the state’s Historically Underutilized Business (HUB) program, ruling that the executive branch…

On March 24, 2026, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois decided that federal grantees can challenge grant terminations by the Administration if at the time of…

Vicki Volponi, who sells construction supplies near Charleston, South Carolina, was in a good groove for most of last year. She was on track to book nearly $10 million in…

Some diversity and construction industry advocates say a recent change by the U.S. Department of Transportation to a federal program could hurt smaller companies owned by minorities and women —…

The change, which eliminated the race-and sex-based presumptions under the Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Program, provided the relief plaintiffs sought, Judge Gregory F. Van Tatenhove of the US District Court for…

Five months after a federal court ruled in favor of the Trump administration’s overhaul of a U.S. Department of Transportation program, minority-owned businesses say they are being shut out of…

Kenneth Canty, a Georgia infrastructure company owner, hopes to help restore the Francis Scott Key Bridge by repurposing the large bridge structures for environmental restoration. But like his colleagues in…