Supplemental Brief in Support of TRO and PI — Vitolo v. Guzman

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT · No. 3:21-cv-00176-TRM-DCP · Doc. 15 · 2021-05-12 · Docket on CourtListener

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 
FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE 
______________________________________________________________________________ 
 
JAKE’S BAR AND GRILL, LLC, and 
ANTONIO VITOLO, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Plaintiffs, 
  
 
v. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Case No. 3:21-cv-176  
 
 
 
 
ISABELLA CASILLAS GUZMAN,  
 
 
 
Defendant. 
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SUPPLEMENTAL BRIEF IN SUPPORT OF MOTION FOR TEMPORARY 
RESTRAINING ORDER AND MOTION FOR PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION 
______________________________________________________________________________ 
Shortly after Plaintiffs filed this lawsuit, the Small Business Association 
released its latest data on the Restaurant Revitalization Fund. This new data 
strongly supports Plaintiffs’ request for an immediate temporary restraining order 
and preliminary injunction. According to SBA, it has already received over 147,000 
applications from “priority” applicants, requesting a total of $29 billion in funds—
more than is available in the fund. See Small Business Association, Recovery for the 
Smallest Restaurants and Bars: Administrator Guzman Announces Latest 
Application Data Results for the Restaurant Revitalization Fund (May 12, 2021), 
https://www.sba.gov/article/2021/may/12/recovery-smallest-restaurants-bars-
administrator-guzman-announces-latest-application-data-results. 
Furthermore, SBA’s press release announces that it has already processed 
21,000 applications and disbursed $2.7 billion of the funds. Id. In other words, unless 
this Court issues a temporary restraining order or preliminary injunction, the fund 
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will be entirely depleted before disfavored applicants, like Plaintiffs, ever have a shot 
at this much-needed relief. This Court can fully remedy the blatant equal protection 
violation by immediately ordering Defendant to cease disbursements from the fund 
until this Court can rule on the preliminary injunction motion, and then issuing a 
preliminary injunction requiring SBA to process applications in the order they were 
received, without regard to the race or gender of the applicant.  
 
Dated May 12, 2021 
 
 
WISCONSIN INSTITUTE FOR LAW & LIBERTY 
Rick Esenberg (pro hac vice pending) 
rick@will-law.org 
/s/ Daniel P. Lennington 
Daniel P. Lennington (pro hac vice pending) 
dan@will-law.org 
Luke N. Berg (pro hac vice pending) 
luke@will-law.org 
330 E. Kilbourn Ave., Suite 725 
Milwaukee, WI 53202 
Phone: (414) 727-9455  
Fax: (414)727-6385 
 
 
/s/ Matthew J. McClanahan 
Matthew J. McClanahan (BPR #036867) 
McClanahan & Winston, PC 
PO Box 51907 
Knoxville, Tennessee 37950 
Telephone: (865) 347-3921 
Fax: (865) 444-0786 
Email: matt@tennadvocate.com 
 
Attorneys for Plaintiffs 
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