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White Entrepreneur Lacks Standing To Challenge Amazon Diversity Grants

White Entrepreneur Lacks Standing To Challenge Amazon Diversity Grants

White Entrepreneur Lacks Standing To Challenge Amazon Diversity Grants

Court says plaintiff failed to show that purported injury is “concrete, particularized, and actual or imminent”
A federal District Court in Texas has dismissed a complaint brought by a 44-year-old white woman who complained that she was discriminated against by Amazon’s diversity grant program for Black, Hispanic, and Native American owners of delivery service partners. She claimed she was discriminated against because the grants are not available to white or Asian owners. The Court said she had not alleged an injury sufficient to establish that she had standing to bring the case. Amazon maintains a grant program offering $10,000 to help cover start-up costs of new Black, Hispanic and Native American entrepreneurs who establish companies to provide package delivery services for Amazon. The...

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