( May 21, 2026, 2:17 PM EDT) -- CINCINNATI — A split Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals denied a petition for rehearing en banc filed by a business owner after a split panel affirmed dismissal of the owner’s putative class lawsuit alleging racially discriminatory grantmaking, agreeing with the trial court that the owner failed to show standing to sue the grant program administrators as he never completed a grant application....