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Byline: Danielle Douglas-Gabriel Students of color appear undeterred from applying to prominent colleges despite last year's Supreme Court ruling that bars institutions from using race as a factor in admissions, [...]

Byline: Robert Barnes and Ann E. Marimow Conservative justices on Monday seemed open to ending decades of Supreme Court precedent allowing race-conscious admission decisions at colleges and universities, repeatedly expressing [...]

Byline: Meena Venkataramanan Angie Shin, 21, arrived in Washington on Sunday, exhausted from an early morning flight from Boston and months of helping mobilize their Harvard University classmates in support [...]

Byline: Ann E. Marimow, Nick Anderson, Amy B Wang and Susan Svrluga WASHINGTON - Conservative Supreme Court justices Monday posed tough questions about the legality of affirmative action in college [...]

(JURIST) - A Texas man filed a lawsuit Tuesday against six state-run medical schools, accusing them of violating anti-discrimination laws by using affirmative action to give preference to female and [...]

On December 11, 2017, the United States Supreme Court denied a petition to review a lower court ruling that held Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title [...]

Affirmative action as we know it is probably doomed. When you ask top Obama administration officials and people in the federal court system about the issue, you often hear a [...]

Byline: Warren Richey The US Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a constitutional amendment in Michigan banning the use of race-based preferences in the admissions decisions of public universities. Voting 6 [...]

In a recently issued opinion, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit held that an employee's suspension with pay typically does not constitute an 'adverse employment action' [...]

A lawsuit that prompted a 2003 Supreme Court decision over affirmative action admissions policies at the University of Michigan has been settled, concluding a nearly decade-long battle. The university will […]

Byline: Jonathan Turley Monday, the Supreme Court once again ventured into the quagmire of affirmative action. In two cases, the court will decide whether it is permissible to use race [...]

Byline: Michigan Lawyers Weekly Staff In "Ending affirmative action," Oct. 30, 2006, we reported that the campaign manager and another member of the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative (MCRI) -- the [...]

A trial judge here has ruled the city's 20-year-old affirmative action program assisting minority-owned businesses unconstitutional, saying it violates Proposition 209, the 1996 ballot initiative that outlawed sex and race-based […]

Inside Higher Ed's Scott Jaschik flags a study with implications for one of the Supreme Court's blockbuster rulings this week. The case in question, Fisher v. University of Texas, narrows [...]

CORPORATE AMERICA put on a remarkable display of support for affirmative action when more than 60 companies signed briefs this year backing up the University of Michigan's use of race […]

On Tuesday the Supreme Court will hear arguments in two cases challenging the University of Michigan's admissions policies, which award minority applicants extra points. The court's decision could change admissions […]

With the government's briefs due tomorrow, President Bush has become personally involved in deciding the administration's position on the two big affirmative action cases scheduled for argument in the Supreme […]