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| | United States, City of Richmond, Appelant v. J.A. Croson Company |
 | | DECISION: Fourteenth Amendment's equal protection clause held violated by Virginia city's requirement that non-minority-owned prime contractors on city construction contracts must provide at least 30 percent set-aside to minority subcontractors. |
 | | J., and White, Kennedy, and Stevens, JJ., and constituted the opinion of the court, it was held that the Fourteenth Amendment's equal protection clause was violated by the city's set-aside ordinance.. |
 | | J., and White and Kennedy, JJ., expressed the view racial classifications under the equal protection clause were subject to a strict scrutiny standard, especially given the specifics of this case. |
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