Affirmative Action
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Courts
Supreme Court Tells Blum Group To Fight West Point On Their Own
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Law Schools
Law Schools Worried About What Admissions Will Look Like Now That The Supreme Court Killed Affirmative Action
Law schools are trying, but.... -
Law Schools
The Supreme Court's Affirmative Action Ban Really Gummed Up The Law School Admissions Process
Things are moving much more slowly than usual when it comes to getting into law school. -
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Government
We Might Not Even Need The Supreme Court To Get Rid Of Legacy Admissions
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Biglaw
Winston & Strawn The Next Target Of Blum And His Diversity Haters
Hoping That Third Time's The Failure. -
Law Schools
Enough With The Diversity 'Consciousness Raising.' Let's See Some Action
Once it clicks that Rage Against The Machine did all that shining a light for their fans to then complain they 'went woke,' consciousness raising might not be enough. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 09.22.23
* Somehow they’ve managed to find even more undisclosed private air travel. This time taking Clarence Thomas to a Koch brothers event in a level of impropriety that a former W. Bush judge said, “takes my breath away, frankly.” [ProPublica]
* Clifford Chance opts for permanent hybrid work model while other firms choose alienation and extortion. [RollonFriday]
* Second Circuit decides Sam Bankman-Fried can wait in jail. [Law360]
* North Carolina Supreme Court justice Anita Earls spoke publicly about implicit bias in the legal system. After the judiciary commission ordered her to pre-clear future statements with them, she sued over the prior restraint and the federal judge chastised her for making the justice system look bad by talking about bias out loud. [Balls and Strikes]
* Having toppled admissions, right-wingers take aim at scholarships that might possibly help non-white people go to school. [Reuters]
* Judge upholds the right of private investors to put their money toward companies that match their environmental and social goals. [Bloomberg Law News]
* Profiling the folks chronicling the opaque Google antitrust case. [Wired]
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Biglaw
Gibson Dunn Second Biglaw Firm To Cower From Threatened Affirmative Action Suit
What happened to the commitment to diversity?
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Courts
Georgia's Southern District Has Yet To Have A Black Judge. Things Don't Look Better After Getting Rid Of Affirmative Action.
Despite all the talk of progress, it still looks like the 70s. -
Law Schools
Law Schools Prepare For Their First Salvo Of Post-Affirmative Action Applications
Get out there and apply! -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 08.08.23
* Biggest law firm no more… Dentons splitting from Dacheng as China institutes new cybersecurity regulations. [Financial Times]
* The folks behind the Supreme Court case striking down affirmative action in higher education are now launching suits against diversity in the private sector. [WSJ]
* John Eastman wants his disbarment proceedings halted so he can concentrate on being an (as yet) unindicted co-conspirator. [The Hill]
* The Federal Circuit wants to sideline Judge Pauline Newman for not submitting to a mental health examination… or more accurately their mental health examination. Because she has been examined by a neurologist who blasted the circuit’s recommendation. First federal judges explain history to historians, now they’re explaining neurology to neurologists. [Bloomberg Law News]
* Trump judge orders Southwest Airlines attorneys to attend “religious freedom” training from designated hate group. [Law360]
* Stroock and Stroock and Leavin’. More partners jump ship as the firm votes to end its pension obligations. [American Lawyer]
* Attorneys in Wells Fargo case ask for $180 million. Or double what Wachtell wanted for the Twitter deal that got everyone in a tizzy. [Reuters]
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Law Schools
Is Columbia Law Trying To Do Affirmative Action In The Most Obvious Way Possible? Probably Not.
It would be harder to defend the school if they were requiring a 23&Me print out sheet. -
Law Schools
Not Sure How To Mention Diversity After The Supreme Court Decision? We've Got You Covered.
In short, keep applying! -
Courts
The DOE Has Set Sights On Legacy Admissions, And Civil Rights Protections Could Be Collateral Damage
Losing disparate impact would really suck.