a federal judge ordered the Department of Commerce’s Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) to immediately stop considering a business owner’s race or ethnicity in determining whether an applicant may receive business-related benefits and services from MBDA Business Centers nationwide. Judge Mark T. Pittman, U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of Texas, ruled that the use of the presumption that certain individuals—including African Americans, Latinos, American Indians or Alaska Natives, Asians, and