WASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday, America First Legal (AFL), Mitchell Law PLLC, and Ashbrook Byrne Kresge LLC filed a class-action lawsuit against Progressive Preferred Insurance Company, Progressive Casualty Insurance Company, and Circular Board LLC for engaging in patent racial discrimination by offering $25,000 grants to ten “black-owned small businesses to use toward the purchase of a commercial vehicle.”
Progressive does not allow businesses owned by members of other races to even apply for these grants, and AFL’s client was barred from applying for this grant simply because he is not black. Progressive unlawfully offered these contractual benefits only to black-owned small businesses — a patent violation of 42 U.S.C. § 1981, which outlaws all forms of racial discrimination in the making of contracts. Circular Board LLC operates an online resource platform called Hello Alice, which conspired and partnered with Progressive in administering these racially discriminatory grants.
In July of 2022, AFL filed a class-action lawsuit against Amazon over its racially discriminatory delivery-service-partners program, which awards a $10,000 bonus to partners who are black, Latino, or Native American. AFL is proud to continue fighting for equal opportunity under the law and hold Progressive accountable.
Read the complaint here.
Read more information about the case here.
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