News & Analysis as of August 11, 2025

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The AG’s July 29, 2025, Guidance on Discrimination: Its Potential Impact

ArentFox Schiff on 8/11/2025

On July 29, the Attorney General (AG) of the United States issued a memorandum entitled “Guidance For Recipients of Federal Funding Regarding Unlawful Discrimination” (hereinafter “Guidance”). This alert provides a review of...more

Tennessee Attorney General’s Office Launches New Civil Rights Enforcement Division: What Employers Need to Know

Husch Blackwell LLP on 7/22/2025

On July 1, 2025, Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti announced the launch of the Civil Rights Enforcement Division (CRED), a newly established unit within the Attorney General’s Office. This significant structural...more

DOJ Civil Rights Fraud Initiative Targets Allegedly Discriminatory Practices by Educational Institutions

Alston & Bird on 5/23/2025

The Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Fraud Initiative treats federally funded colleges’ and universities’ DEI programs and other allegedly discriminatory practices as False Claims Act violations. Our Education Team breaks...more

U.S. and State Attorneys General Indicate Readiness to Bring DEI Enforcement Actions

Snell & Wilmer on 2/20/2025

In the latest developments in the DEI policy chronicles, on the same day she was sworn into office, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi issued a memorandum entitled “Ending Illegal DEI and DEIA Discrimination and Preferences.”...more

Attorney General Pam Bondi’s Ending Illegal DEI and DEIA Discrimination and Preferences Memo

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 2/11/2025

On February 5, 2025, Attorney General Pam Bondi disseminated an internal memo within the Department of Justice (DOJ). The memo, Ending Illegal DEI and DEIA Discrimination and Preferences, explained that the DOJ’s Civil Rights...more

Additional Measures to Combat Anti-Semitism (Trump EO Tracker)

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 1/30/2025

Summary - Combat anti-Semitism vigorously, using all available and appropriate legal tools, to prosecute, remove, or otherwise hold to account the perpetrators of unlawful anti-Semitic harassment and violence....more

CFPB Bites of the Month - 2024 Annual Review - Nondiscrimination and Military Protection Law

Hudson Cook, LLP on 1/22/2025

In this article, we share a timeline of our monthly "bites" for 2024 applicable to consumers protected by nondiscrimination and military protection laws. 2025 will likely bring more of the same, particularly in the area of...more

New Guidance and New Enforcement Actions from HHS OCR During COVID-19

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP on 7/29/2020

The United States Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (HHS OCR) has issued new guidance on prohibiting racial discrimination in healthcare, and new enforcement actions show that HHS OCR remains...more

OFCCP Required To Share Statistical Findings In Enforcement Action

Hogan Lovells on 11/16/2017

Employers facing a determination by the OFCCP (Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs) that they have violated the anti-discrimination laws applicable to federal contractors often confront a black box when trying to...more

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