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Civil Rights Groups Want Justice Department to Investigate Police Response to Anti-Israel Campus Protests

Posted by Mike LaChance on July 12, 2024 7 Comments

"These actions require immediate investigation by DOJ and, as they pertain to educational institutions, by ED to ensure that the federal and constitutional rights of all protesters have been and remain protected"...

Condoleezza Rice Makes a Brilliant Case for School Choice

Posted by Mike LaChance on June 24, 2024 13 Comments

"If you’re really wealthy, you will send your kids to private school. So who’s stuck in failing neighborhood schools? Poor kids. A lot of them minority kids."...

Equal Protection Project Influence Reflected in Court of Appeals “Fearless Fund” Antidiscrimination Ruling

Posted by James Nault on June 04, 2024 18 Comments

Compare EPP's Amicus Brief ("The district court’s decision would gut existing antidiscrimination civil rights laws") with the 11th Circuit's opinion ("First Amendment protections for a...

Quinnipiac Law Scholarship Faces Title IX Complaint for Excluding Heterosexual Males

Posted by Mike LaChance on April 12, 2024 2 Comments

"A law school should know better than to discriminate on the basis of sex"...

U. Minnesota Law School Stops Giving Preference to Minorities for Fellowship After Watchdog Complaint

Posted by Mike LaChance on April 01, 2024 2 Comments

"a win for civil rights"...

A New Administration Could Use Civil Rights Laws to Reshape Higher Education

Posted by Mike LaChance on March 20, 2024 6 Comments

"Americans can decide in 2024 whether to allow our universities to remain structurally anti-Semitic."...

Black-Women-Only Grant Program Halted, 11th Circuit Issues Injunction Pending Appeal in Fearless Fund Case

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 30, 2023 22 Comments

"the plaintiff has established that the defendants' racially exclusionary program-the "Fearless Strivers Grant Contest"-is substantially likely to violate 42 U.S.C. § 1981....

Georgia Federal Judge Rules Racially Discriminatory Contracting Is “Speech and Expression” Protected By 1st Amendment – Emergency Appeal Filed

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 28, 2023 68 Comments

Emergency Motion for injunction pending appeal: "The district court said discriminatory contracting itself is protected speech. That line is one the Supreme Court has always been careful not to cross, as it would destroy the whole enterprise of antidiscrimination law...

Jury Finds White Starbucks Employee Terminated Based on Race, Awards Employee $25.6 Million

Posted by Terrance Kible on June 17, 2023 14 Comments

The jury found Starbucks showed "reckless indifference" and was "wanton and willful" in its disregard for the employee's "right not to be discriminated against in employment on account of her race."...

Duke University Facing Civil Rights Investigations From Education Department

Posted by Mike LaChance on May 28, 2023 3 Comments

"the Office for Civil Rights revealed that it had launched a second investigation into the school just days after resolving the previous one"...

Equal Protection Project Calls On SUNY To Cease Supporting Blacks-Only Albany Public Library Fellowship

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 13, 2023 11 Comments

"We call upon UAlbany to immediately cease and desist from participating in, supporting or promoting the [Albany Public Library fellowship] in any way as long as eligibility in the program and selection of participants is based on unconstitutional and invidiously discriminatory racial criteria."...

Equal Protection Project Calls On Albany (NY) Public Library To “Cease and Desist” From Blacks-Only Fellowship Program

Posted by Ameer Benno on March 23, 2023 10 Comments

"we trust that you will cease and desist from continuing to conduct the [Fellowship] based on racially discriminatory factors ...

Pacific University Oregon Accused of Banning ‘Whites From Campus Events’

Posted by Mike LaChance on February 09, 2023 3 Comments

"The university’s multiple cases of illegal race-based discrimination suggests that they are either unacceptably unaware that this type of racial discrimination is illegal"...

Legendary Prof. Mark J. Perry Explains How He Fights Politically-Correct Campus Bigotry

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 10, 2023 14 Comments

On Prof. Glenn Reynold's new Substack, Prof. Perry explains his success fighting politically-correct bigotry: "In 2022 alone, the OCR resolved 170 violations of Title VI and IX at 97 colleges and universities based on my complaints...

Lawsuit Filed Challenging Affirmative Action in Texas Public Medical Schools

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 10, 2023 14 Comments

Complaint: "Each of the defendant medical schools and universities, along with nearly every medical school and university in the United States, discriminates on account of race and sex when admitting students by giving discriminatory preferences to females and non-Asian minorities, and by discriminating against whites,...

Three Former Minneapolis Police Officers Convicted of Violating George Floyd’s Civil Rights

Posted by Mike LaChance on February 25, 2022 33 Comments

The legal fallout of the George Floyd case in Minneapolis continues as three of the former police officers involved have now been charged with violating Floyd's civil rights. We covered the case of former officer Derek Chauvin extensively. See all of our Floyd related coverage here.

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Nikole Hannah-Jones to Headline Martin Luther King Jr. Event at Northwestern U.

Posted by Mike LaChance on November 19, 2021 5 Comments

"King's message was one of hope and potential. Jones' is one of condemnation and doom."...

Biden Admin Launches Spurious “Civil Rights” Investigations Into States Banning School Mask Mandates

Posted by Ameer Benno on September 06, 2021 21 Comments

Biden has opted to sic the Department of Education on those states that have not fallen in line with his preferred view by bringing civil rights investigations against them. It's a federal power grab....

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