Lawyers have filed a rush of lawsuits against corporations, law firms, health care companies, art groups and nonprofits. And ...

Key Highlights The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a lawsuit against the State of Minnesota challenging its affirmative action hiring program. It alleges that Minnesota’s requirement to ...

The Justice Department’s test case to dismantle Minnesota’s affirmative action program turns on the viability of the US Supreme Court’s nearly 50-year-old precedent supporting narrowly-tailored ...

On January 14, 2026, the United States Department of Justice’s (“DOJ”) Civil Rights Division filed a federal suit seeking to strike down the State ...

The Supreme Court of the United States has upheld the University of Texas’ affirmative action program, which helps minority students get admitted to the university, Politico reports. Suggested Reading ...

Attorney General Pam Bondi said the lawsuit is the department's "latest effort to bring Minnesota into compliance with federal law." ...

March 26 -- The Supreme Court re-entered the debate overaffirmative action, agreeing today to decide whether a federalprogram to help disadvantaged businesses amounts to unlawful racediscrimination.

Ohio has eliminated requirements that state contractors maintain written affirmative action programs (AAPs) and that bidders for public improvement construction projects receive affirmative action ...

No Democratic candidate for president has ever come so close to calling for an end to the era of identity-based affirmative action as has Barack Obama. Since 2004, the first black major party nominee ...