The tug-of-war over diversity, equity, and inclusion is increasing the threat of legal scrutiny for venture capital firms, whether they proactively back more diverse business founders or maintain a status quo that tends to funnel most capital to White male entrepreneurs.
An Alaska law that prevented physician assistants and advanced practice registered nurses from providing abortions was struck down Wednesday by a state judge.
A coalition of civil rights and environmental groups are urging the Environmental Protection Agency to maintain civil rights protections nationwide, according to a letter sent Wednesday.
Texas State University’s former discrimination policy may unlawfully restrict students from expressing conservative political views, a panel of Fifth Circuit judges said Tuesday during oral arguments.
Federal privacy rules limiting when health-care providers can share abortion-related information with state officials and law enforcement should be vacated and set aside, Texas told a federal court.
A California federal judge sought clarity on how the NCAA’s $2.8 billion settlement designed to resolve antitrust claims would be distributed, along with consideration of scholarship limit claims, as she questioned attorneys for about three hours Thursday.
The operators of Broadway’s Gershwin Theater discriminated against an employee on the basis of her gender and sexual orientation and failed to respond appropriately to her complaints about mistreatment from her supervisor, a federal lawsuit said.
The City of Los Angeles on Thursday convinced the Ninth Circuit to vacate the class certification of Black Lives Matter protesters in the activist group’s 2020 lawsuit over alleging excessive police force.
Lewis & Clark College couldn’t shake a breach of contract claim stemming from a former graduate student’s disability-related complaint.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a three lawsuits against two restaurants and an airline, charging that they allowed hostile work environments to fester, the agency announced Thursday.
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Twenty-two states are urging a federal appeals court to allow Florida to enforce its prohibition on certain gender-affirming care for minors.
A reproductive health provider in Massachusetts sued an anti-abortion pregnancy center on Thursday in federal court, saying the latter is unlawfully interfering with women’s right to obtain care in the commonwealth.
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The Federal Reserve on Thursday said it’s looking to amend the operational practices of its facility typically used by banks and credit unions in times of stress.
A quarter of federal district courts have never had a Black judge. Nowhere is that disparity more jarring than in Georgia's Southern District, where one-third of the population under the court's jurisdiction is Black. We visited south Georgia to learn why this district, with its sizable Black population, has never had a Black federal district court judge.
Partners at Troutman Pepper and Locke Lord this week voted in favor of the law firms merging, according to a joint statement Thursday.
The full Sixth Circuit on Thursday declined to touch limits on coordinated spending between political parties and federal candidates in a closely-watched campaign finance case brought by Republicans that appears teed up for review by the US Supreme Court.
The Missouri secretary of state must change his voter-guide statement for an abortion rights measure on the November ballot, a state judge said Thursday in a decision siding with the campaign behind the amendment.
The federal judge presiding over the 2020 election-interference prosecution against
An Illinois federal judge recused herself from a settled antitrust class action brought by homeowners over realtor commission payments.
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