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Poyner Spruill LLP

Supreme Court Rejects Requirement that Majority-Plaintiffs Must Satisfy Heightened Evidentiary Standard to Prevail Under Title VII

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On June 5, 2025, the Supreme Court issued its much-anticipated ruling in Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services, concluding that courts cannot require members of a majority group to satisfy a heightened evidentiary...more

Carlton Fields

DOJ Forms Civil Rights Fraud Initiative: A New Branch of False Claims Act Enforcement

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On May 19, 2025, U.S. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche announced the formation of a Civil Rights Fraud Initiative “to investigate and, as appropriate, pursue claims against any recipient of federal funds that knowingly...more

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Trump’s Executive Orders on DEI

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Policy shifts, court challenges, and strategic considerations for organizations navigating federal directives on DEI....more

Blank Rome LLP

What GSA Contractors Need to Know About the New FAR Deviation for Revoked Executive Order 11246, Equal Employment Opportunity

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On February 18, 2025, the General Services Administration (“GSA”) announced that it issued GSA Class Deviation CD-2025-04 (“the GSA Class Deviation”) effective February 15, 2025, to implement Executive Order (“EO”) 14173...more

McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC

What U.S. Employers Need to Know about Upcoming DEI Executive Orders

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On the first day of President Trump’s second administration, he signed the Ending Racial and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing Executive Order. This order provides direction to eliminate any and all Diversity,...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Trump’s January 2025 Executive Orders: Implications for Employers

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Introduction - Shortly after his second inauguration, President Trump signed a series of executive orders addressing diversity, equity, and inclusion (“DEI”) programs in the federal government and supplanting such initiatives...more

Shutts & Bowen LLP

Trump Executive Order Rescinds EO 11246 Regarding Affirmative Action for Contractors on Federal Projects

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On January 21, 2025, President Trump issued an Executive Order (“EO”) entitled “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity.” This EO revokes longstanding Executive Order 11246 (Equal Employment...more

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New Executive Order Targets DEI, Reduces Affirmative Action Requirements

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On Tuesday, January 21, President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order titled “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity.” The new Executive Order condemns corporate and governmental policies on...more

Miller & Martin PLLC

The New Trump Executive Order 14145 Regarding Equal Employment Opportunity – What It REALLY Means for HR

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In the last few days since the Presidential Inauguration and initial Executive Orders, we have received emails saying everything from “President Trump has voided Title VII” to asking whether “all equal employment laws have...more

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Trump rescinds Executive Order 11246

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President Lyndon B. Johnson signed Executive Order 11246 in 1965. Since then, organizations doing business with the federal government had to affirmatively recruit women and minorities for employment and ensure employment...more

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Breaking: President Trump Rescinds Executive Order 11246

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On January 21, 2025, President Trump issued a broad executive order titled “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity” (the “Order”), which among other things, rescinds Executive Order (“EO”) 11246....more

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