MGT Disparity Study Upheld in Federal District Court
A court decision involving one of MGT’s disparity study’s, Rowe v. North Carolina Department of Transportation, found in favor of the North Carolina Department of Transportation. The federal district court upheld North Carolina’s Minority and Women’s Business Enterprise (M/WBE) program by finding that its M/WBE program, enacted by the state legislature, was constitutional.
In 2003, H.B. Rowe filed suit against the state-funded portion of the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) M/WBE program, alleging that the NCDOT M/WBE program violated the plaintiff’s constitutional rights to equal protection. MGT produced an update study and provided litigation support to NCDOT. In December 2008 after several years of expert witness depositions, expert witness reports and trial testimony, the federal district court concluded: “The 2004 [MGT] Disparity Study demonstrated the existence of previous discrimination in the specific industry and locality at issue.”
