As widely expected, the Supreme Court’s June 5, 2025 decision in Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services confirmed that a plaintiff alleging employment discrimination under Title VII cannot be held to a different,...more
6/9/2025
/ Affirmative Action ,
Ames v Ohio Department of Youth Services ,
Diversity and Inclusion Standards (D&I) ,
Employment Discrimination ,
Employment Litigation ,
Evidentiary Standards ,
Reverse Discrimination ,
SCOTUS ,
Sex Discrimination ,
Sexual Orientation Discrimination ,
Title VII
In the first two days of his second term in office, President Trump issued dozens of executive orders—including several that seek to eliminate diversity, equity, and inclusion (“DEI”) programs and policies across the federal...more
In the year since the Supreme Court’s highly anticipated decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard and Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina (SFFA), effectively eliminating race-conscious...more
On June 3, 2024, the Eleventh Circuit authorized a preliminary injunction in American Alliance for Equal Rights v. Fearless Fund Management, LLC et al., ruling that a grant contest that awards funding and mentorship...more
6/11/2024
/ Anti-Discrimination Policies ,
Diversity ,
Diversity and Inclusion Standards (D&I) ,
Early Stage Companies ,
Entrepreneurs ,
First Amendment ,
Grants ,
Injury-in-Fact ,
Minority-Owned Businesses ,
Startups ,
Students for Fair Admissions v Harvard College ,
Students for Fair Admissions v University of North Carolina ,
Venture Capital ,
Women-Owned Businesses
On October 22, 2020, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) published a Request for Information (RFI) in the Federal Register seeking information about any workplace diversity...more
10/29/2020
/ Bias ,
Diversity ,
Diversity and Inclusion Standards (D&I) ,
Employee Training ,
Executive Orders ,
Federal Contractors ,
OFCCP ,
Request For Information ,
Sexual Stereotyping ,
Subcontractors ,
Trump Administration
On September 22, 2020, President Trump issued Executive Order 13950, an Executive Order on Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping (the “Order”), prohibiting federal contractors from conducting workplace diversity or...more
10/7/2020
/ Bias ,
Civil Rights Act ,
Diversity ,
Diversity and Inclusion Standards (D&I) ,
Educational Institutions ,
Employee Training ,
Executive Orders ,
Federal Contractors ,
OFCCP ,
OMB ,
Race Relations ,
Sexual Stereotyping ,
Title VII ,
Trump Administration