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2020 Report 217 Guidance for Diversity in Airport Business Contracting and Workforce Programs
Rosales Law Partners, Exstare Federal Services Group and Cadmus Group LLC co-authored and produced a guidebook for the ACRP entitled 217 Guidance for Diversity in Airport Business Contracting and Workforce Programs (2020). The guidebook provides guidance and assistance to airport operators and stakeholders concerning equity and inclusion best practices in business transactions, internal airport workforces and the workforces of the airports business partners.
2020 Report 217 Guidance for Diversity in Airport Business Contracting and Workforce Programs
January 2014
Rosales Law Partners successfully defended Humboldt County in Powell v. County of Humboldt (2014) 222 Cal.App.4th 1424 from a claim that the County violated United States and California Constitutions by taking private property without payment of just compensation. The Court upheld the County’s requirement that the Powells grant an overflight easement in exchange for a building permit. The Powell decision provides clarification to airports and other governmental entities regarding the “doctrine of unconstitutional conditions” under Nollan v. California Coastal Comm. (1987) 483 U.S. 825 and its progeny.
2015 ACRP Report 126
Rosales Law Partners, Exstare Federal Services Group, LLC and WHP Research, Inc. co-authored and produced a guidebook in 2015 entitled Report 126 “A Guidebook for Increasing Diverse and Small Business Participation in Airport Business Opportunities”. The Guidebook is to assist the nation’s airports in their efforts to increase disadvantaged and small firm participation in federally assisted contracts and concessions, and analyzes policies and practices that U.S. commercial airports are implementing pursuant to their 49 CFR Parts 23 and 26 regulatory obligations.
April 2013
In Associated General Contractors of America, San Diego Chapter, Inc. v. Caltrans, 713 F.3d 1187 (9th Cir. 2013), Rosales Law Partners successfully defended the constitutionality of California Department of Transportation (Caltrans)’ federal Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) Program. The Ninth Circuit held that Caltrans’ substantial statistical and anecdotal evidence underlying the program provided a strong basis in evidence of discrimination against identified minority and women owned businesses and that the DBE program, which responded to the identified discrimination, was narrowly tailored.
October 25, 2012
Rosales Law Partners LLP is very pleased to announce it has been awarded the 2012 Minority-Owned Law Firm Client Service Award by the California Minority Counsel Program (CMCP). CMCP grants this award to a minority law firm that has best demonstrated outstanding client service. We thank you and share this award with you.
August 2010
In Coral Construction Inc. v. City and County of San Francisco (2010) 50 Cal.4th 315, Rosales Law Partners’ founder, Mara Rosales, served as lead counsel defending the constitutionality of San Francisco’s Minority/Woman Business Utilization Ordinance under California’s Proposition 209, known as the Civil Rights Initiative. There, the California Supreme Court agreed with the City’s argument that notwithstanding Prop. 209’s prohibitions, the federal equal protection clause may possibly compel a city to remedy intentional discrimination through the adoption of a race-conscious public contracting ordinance. The court established a four-part legal test that a public entity must meet before it may implement state/local funded race-conscious remedial measures under Prop. 209.
Coral Construction, Inc. v. City and County of San Francisco (2010) 50 Cal.4th 315