Business Owner To Seek Rehearing After Grant Bias Class Suit Dismissal Upheld

( March 5, 2026, 8:38 AM EST) -- CINCINNATI — The Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals granted a business owner two additional weeks to file a petition for rehearing after a split appellate panel affirmed dismissal of the owner’s putative class lawsuit alleging racially discriminatory grantmaking; the panel agreed with the trial court that the owner failed to show standing to sue the grant program administrators as he never completed a grant application....