Some DEI policies in the workplace are discriminatory, and employers that discriminate could be subject to enforcement actions and lawsuits.

While science has vastly advanced since the early days of the HIV/AIDS epidemic more than 30 years ago, the ways in which many criminal laws treat people living with HIV look like throwbacks to the ...

From its inception, the new Trump Administration issued executive orders that were critical of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) programs. For example, as we previously addressed, Executive Order ...

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On July 29, 2025, US Attorney General Pam Bondi issued a memorandum that provides guidance for recipients of federal funding regarding “unlawful discrimination” on the basis of race, color, national ...

Good for the U.S. Supreme Court. Ruling in a Houston case Thursday, the court declared Texas' 120-year-old, archaic and discriminatory antisodomy law an unconstitutional violation of privacy. The 6-3 ...

Hiring or promotion practices that “prioritizes candidates from underrepresented groups” for admission, hiring, promotion, bypassing qualified candidates who do not belong to those groups. Creating a ...

Recent changes limit employment discrimination claims, especially for disparate impact, with the Supreme Court possibly challenging its constitutionality. The EEOC will focus only on direct ...

An employer that, without soliciting internal or external applications for an open management position, selects the only candidate who applied may face legal liability to older employees, or others in ...

The prospect of societal advancement while keeping women outside the mainstream of development is simply unrealistic.

The Supreme Court was hearing a plea challenging provisions of the Muslim Personal Law (Shariat) Application Act, 1937, which the petitioners said discriminated against Muslim women.