The Court rejected some federal circuits' rules that a majority-group plaintiff must "present[] evidence of 'background circumstances' suggesting that the [defendant] was the rare employer who discriminates against members of a majority group."
Author Sheena Michele Mason offers an alternative vision for anti-racism.
A district judge had "found the provisions likely unconstitutional and issued a nationwide injunction" against them; the Fourth Circuit just stayed that injunction, pending full consideration of the issue on appeal.
Measures restricting gun ownership still disproportionately harm black and brown people, says Maj Toure, founder of "Black Guns Matter."
A judge sanctions a self-represented litigant who threatened to contact defendant's donors as a means of trying to pressure defendant into settling.
The symposium includes contributions by many prominent legal scholars. I am among the contributors.
The Minority Teachers for Illinois Scholarship Program is blatantly unconstitutional.
A California appellate panel interprets California's Racial Justice Act.
The Department of Justice alleges that the South Bend Police Department is violating the Civil Rights Act due to disparate acceptance rates for female and black applicants.
An interesting question divides a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
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.
A black resident called the police to complain about alleged racial harassment by white neighbor; the resident alleges the police arrested him for leaving the scene after the police arrived, but didn't arrest the neighbor for doing the same thing.
Justice Alito wrote a strong dissent to denial of certiorari. The issues the case raises are likely to recur. In the meantime, the lower court ruling in the case sets a dangerous precedent.
The administrator, at Texas A & M University Texarkana, alleges he was pushed out because of his race, and because he had declined to discipline a student who "had used the word 'Nigga' in [a classmate's] presence while on a trip to the mall."
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.
No, you can't do that.
Zora Neale Hurston’s hometown of Eatonville, Florida, was one of the first all-black municipalities incorporated in the U.S.
She was the first woman Supreme Court justice, and played a key role in changing the Court's jurisprudence for the better on several issues.
My wife Alison Somin, an attorney with the Pacific Legal Foundation, outlines the problem.
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.
can go forward, says a federal court.
Is our country getting closer to living out the true meaning of its creed, "All men are created equal"?
The opinion was decided July 21, but was originally issued sealed; it was just unsealed today, in response to my motion to unseal.
Cato Institute immigration policy expert Alex Nowrasteh explains the close parallels between a policy most conservatives hate, and one most them reflexively support.
Policy analyst Justin Hayes summarizes the reasons why conservatives, progressives, and libertarians all have reason to support zoning reform.
A critical column by Jamelle Bouie prompts an extensive reply from Peter Canellos.
If activists want to help young people, they should start before college.
The article assesses strengths and weaknesses of the Court's decision, and what it will take to implement Chief Justice Roberts' admonition that "[e]liminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it."
Achieving this goal will require a lot more than banning racial preferences in college admissions. That includes some measures that will make the political right uncomfortable, as well as the left.
Plus: A listener question on the potential efficacy of congressional term limits.
They probably aren't illegal under current law. But they are nonetheless wrong for many of the same reasons as racial preferences.
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