The Court ruled unanimously in favor of a disabled teenage girl and her family, who faced a higher bar to prove that her school discriminated against her.
According to the suit, workers denied service to and shouted epithets at two men wearing Star of David baseball caps in 2024.
The court ruled on Thursday that a heterosexual woman shouldn't have to clear a higher bar than a gay colleague to sue for discrimination.
Yesterday's ruling in Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services unanimously applies this once-contested principle.
Unanimous rulings on discrimination, guns, and religion once again challenge the common media narrative that the Court is hopelessly polarized.
Olympus Spa had sued on First Amendment grounds.
though the court found the plaintiffs had standing to bring the claim, and gave them one last chance to amend their complaint to plausibly allege enough to allow the case to go forward.
Author Sheena Michele Mason offers an alternative vision for anti-racism.
Volokh's view gave breathing room for individuals' speech interests while leaving plenty of space for government to protect people from discrimination
Yes, argues the Brandeis Center in a letter to Microsoft.
The Court will weigh religious opt-outs and charter school discrimination. But true educational freedom means funding students, not systems.
The Washington Free Beacon's Aaron Sibarium discusses the various slashes the Trump administration has made to DEI projects and USAID.
But at least he restored respect for a tariff-loving predecessor by renaming a mountain.
According to a student complaint, the Commission's head directed other students to reject "Zionist" applicants.
The key issue in such cases is the motivation of the official who adopted by the policy, not who voted for him.
As hurricane damage mounts, the government is buying—and sometimes seizing—homes in flood-prone areas, sparking concerns over property rights and accusations of discrimination.
Federal housing officials allege a New Hampshire landlord violated the Fair Housing Act for refusing to show a unit to two women with emotional support dogs.
Judge Joseph Bianco’s decision emphasizes that constitutional rights and protections belong to individuals, not groups.
Under the law, the feds couldn't deny you a job or security clearance just because you've used marijuana in the past.
President Mohamed Muizzu cannot claim to be on the right side of history while adhering to a textbook definition of bigotry.
Chief executives' illicit motives can render their subordinates' actions unconstitutional. There is good reason for courts to enforce that rule.
The anniversary is today. The American Journal of Law and Equality is publishing a symposium on Brown to mark the occasion. I am one of the contributors.
The Institute for Justice has launched a project to reform land use regulation.
Plus: Colorado passes a string of zoning reforms, an upscale Los Angeles grocery store sues to stop new housing, and Democrats urge the White House to get moving on fair housing.
Sociologist Roderick Graham and I debated this issue at the Divided We Fall website.
In the Jim Crow South, businesses fought racism—because the rules denied them customers.
The anime Mashle: Magic and Muscles offers an absurdist metaphor for politically driven discrimination.
The ACLU's lawsuit is filed on behalf of a New York man whose application to stay in a Ronald McDonald House was denied because of his 12-year-old felony assault conviction.
Harvard concludes that it is, but I’m skeptical that this is right—just as I’d be skeptical that an employer’s restricting pro-Hamas speech constitutes such discrimination or harassment.
Amicus brief in Supreme Court's Second Amendment Rahimi case
The best reforms would correct the real problems of overcriminalization and overincarceration, as well as removing all artificial barriers to building more homes.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development argues in its complaint that a failure to allow emotional support animals amounts to illegal disability discrimination under the Fair Housing Act.
A N.J. judge has thrown out the lawsuit, on the narrow grounds that, even if the newspaper deliberately discouraged people from attending the group's charity gala, the N.J. Law Against Discrimination doesn't apply to charity galas.
federal court allows the case to go forward.
HOPE Fair Housing Center argues in a new federal complaint that an Illinois landlord's blanket refusal to rent to people with eviction records amounts to illegal sex and race discrimination.
Plus: Elite colleges favor the rich, D.C. restaurants pass on new wage costs to customers, and more...
If activists want to help young people, they should start before college.
Join Reason on YouTube and Facebook Thursday at 1 p.m. Eastern for a live discussion of the Court's recent rulings on affirmative action and same-sex wedding services.
The speech compulsion it forbids is not limited to wedding-website designers who object to same-sex marriage, but its principles should apply only to a narrow range of commercial products
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