When a city uses a temporary, individualized race-conscious remedy after a court finds its own intentional exclusion from one program, what Equal Protection test applies?
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Individual Rights > Equal Protection Clause
After a court found that Esther's city purchasing office had intentionally kept minority-owned repair teams out of the city's Good Samaritan shelter-repair contract roster for many years, the city adopted a race-conscious corrective rule. The rule applies only to that shelter-repair roster, ends after 18 months, and uses case-by-case file review before any contract preference is given. Which statement best describes the Equal Protection analysis?
01 Spot the government actor: the city purchasing office.
02 Spot the classification: the corrective rule is race-conscious.
03 Use the classification, not the friendly purpose, to choose the scrutiny level.
04 Use the classification, not the economic contract setting, to choose the scrutiny level.
05 Race triggers strict scrutiny.
06 Separate the standard from the outcome.
07 Strict scrutiny asks whether the city can prove compelling remedial interest and narrow tailoring.
08 Choose C.
A / trap
The rule gets rational-basis review because it is meant to assist a disadvantaged group.
A uses the remedial purpose to lower the standard. Equal Protection chooses the scrutiny level from the racial classification, not from the government's helpful label.
B / trap
The rule gets intermediate scrutiny because the contracts involve economic activity.
B points to the contract setting instead of the challenged line. Contracting is the program context; race is the classification that selects the scrutiny level.
C / correct
The racial classification triggers strict scrutiny, and the city must prove a compelling remedial interest and narrow tailoring.
C is correct. Government racial classifications trigger strict scrutiny, and the city must prove both a compelling remedial interest and narrow tailoring.
D / trap
The rule is automatically invalid as soon as strict scrutiny applies.
D is the dominant trap. Strict scrutiny is demanding, but it is still an interest-and-tailoring test rather than automatic invalidity by label alone.
Red axis: The issue is strict scrutiny as a test versus strict scrutiny as automatic defeat.
Purple profile: The answer set tempts students with benign-purpose rational basis, economic-setting intermediate scrutiny, and strict-scrutiny automatic invalidity.
Blue signal: The decisive words are race-conscious rule, court-found exclusion from the same roster, 18-month limit, and case-by-case review.
Orange repair: Student habit to repair: downgrading race classifications because the purpose is helpful or overclaiming strict scrutiny as a one-word loss.
Gold Key / GK-CONLAW-RACE-STRICT-SCRUTINY-01
A government racial classification triggers strict scrutiny even when the government calls it remedial or benign; the government must prove a compelling interest and narrow tailoring.
Gold Key / GK-CONLAW-STRICT-NOT-AUTO-INVALID-02
Strict scrutiny is demanding, but it is still a two-part test; a remedy tied to specific identified discrimination must be tested for compelling interest and narrow tailoring rather than rejected by label alone.
Silver Key / SK-CONLAW-RACE-CLASSIFICATION-01
Pick the scrutiny level from the classification the government used, not from the subject matter of the program or the government's friendly purpose.
Silver Key / SK-CONLAW-STANDARD-OUTCOME-02
Separate the standard from the result: strict scrutiny tells you what the city must prove, not that the city has already lost.
01 Name the government actor.
02 Name the classification.
03 Ignore the helpful-purpose shortcut.
04 Ignore the economic-setting shortcut.
05 Apply strict scrutiny.
06 Separate test from outcome.
07 Require compelling interest and narrow tailoring.
08 Pick C.
Classification Sort
A city uses race-conscious criteria to remedy a court-found exclusion from one contract roster. What scrutiny starts the analysis?
Strict scrutiny.
Standard Versus Outcome
Why is 'strict scrutiny means automatic invalidity' too strong?
Strict scrutiny requires proof of a compelling interest and narrow tailoring; it is not a label-only judgment.
Wrong Axis Cut
A race-conscious rule appears in an economic contract program. Which fact selects the Equal Protection review level?
The racial classification, not the economic setting.