NEW ORLEANS " A Louisiana company accuses Tulane University of its funding application due to its owner's race. Plaintiff Revier Technologies Inc. filed its lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. The named defendants are Tulane University, Tulane Ventures GP LLC, Tulane Innovation Fund, the Louisiana Economic Development Corp., and Susan Bourgeois, secretary of Louisiana Economic Development. According to its website, the LED is the state agency responsible for "cultivating jobs and expanding economic opportunity for the people of Louisiana." Revier, located in Thibodaux, Louisiana, is owned by Matthew Schultheis, who is white. "By denying Revier Technologies's application to the Fund because its owner, Mr. Schultheis, is the wrong race, the Tulane Defendants engaged in unlawful racial discrimination in violation of Title VI and Section 1981, and the LEDC violated Title VI and the Fourteenth Amendment," the 17-page complaint states.