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(Reuters) -The U.S. Military Academy, known as West Point, was sued on Tuesday by an anti-affirmative action group challenging the school's use of race as a factor in student admissions as a violation of the constitutional principle of equal protection. The lawsuit was brought by the same organization that successfully pursued litigation that resulted in the U.S. Supreme Court in June rejecting collegiate student admissions policies that take race into consideration. Such policies long were...

The July 19 Ultima ruling threw the 8(a) program into tumult after the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee found the program’s rebuttable presumption mechanism,...

Brian Schwalb, the Democratic attorney general in Washington, D.C., recently launched an investigation into conservative judicial activist Leonard Leo's network, an effort Leo's attorney says is a "politically driven" attempt at silencing the Republican activist and his associates. Politico reported in August that Schwalb had opened a probe into Leo and his associated organizations. The

A federal court will hold a telephone conference Wednesday in a case involving voting rights for felons. The State Board of Elections and local district attorneys had objected earlier this month to holding a hearing and speeding up the case.

Washington D.C.'s Democratic attorney general has set his sights on a network linked to conservative judicial activist Leonard Leo, and his attorney says it is "politically driven."

HELENA – Attorneys representing transgender youth, their families, and their medical providers will urge a Montana state court to block enforcement of the state’s recent ban on gender-affirming care for

The city of Asheville wants a federal court to dismiss a lawsuit from five white applicants for the city’s Human Relations Commission. City officials dispute the plaintiffs’ argument that they were rejected from the group because of their race.

Federal Chief District Judge David Nye heard arguments on Idaho’s controversial school bathroom law Wednesday morning, as opponents sought an injunction to block the law.

After getting a stamp of approval from the 2023 Legislature, the law has been embroiled in a fierce legal debate since early July.

The law firm representing Hunter Biden in his ongoing tax case has a diversity scholarship explicitly designed for people from disadvantaged backgrounds.