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Three small business owners are challenging a federal agency, which was expanded under the Biden administration and charged with supporting minority-owned businesses, claiming it violates the Constitution’s core requirement of equal treatment under the law.
The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL) filed the lawsuit on behalf of Jeffrey Nuziard, Matthew Piper and Christian Brucker against the Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA), which serves “minority business enterprises (MBEs) owned and operated by African Americans, Asian Americans, Hasidic Jews, Hispanic Americans, Native Americans and Pacific Islanders.”
The agency was created part of a presidential executive order in the 1960s, and permanently authorized through the Infrastructure Act in 2021. All three plaintiffs have sought to use the MBDA to support their businesses, but have been unable to do so because of their race, according to the lawsuit.
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Christian Bruckner, a Romanian immigrant to the United States, owns a contracting company in Florida. When Bruckner reached to the MBDA to inquire about federal assistance, he was told the agency’s focus is “to help grow businesses owned by people of ethnic minorities.” Instead, he was directed to a private company, where he would have had to pay for assistance, according to the lawsuit.
Florida small business owner Christian Bruckner. (Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty)
“I came to the United States in the 1970s because of the belief that America is the freest nation on earth,” Bruckner said. “And that no matter who you are, what you are, or where you came from, you can do anything. That’s what we are fighting for and I am proud to stand alongside WILL in pursuit of true equality for all.”
“America must continue to advance towards a colorblind society where every person is judged on their merit and not the color of their skin,” WILL…
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