Here is some background information about affirmative action as well as a few notable court cases. Affirmative action policies focus on improving opportunities for groups of people, like women and ...

How to sum up Justice Scalia’s impact on the law? We can begin with his jurisprudence on the structural Constitution, which I discussed in part 2. Scalia’s warnings about independent agencies and ...

Howard University students protesting the impeachment of Judge Alcee Hastings in 1989 (Photo courtesy of Howard University via Digital Howard) At Howard University student protest has consistently ...

In a narrowly decided decision delivered by Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a tailored use of race for admission to law school in the highly controversial 2003 case of ...

University of Michigan is poised to hire Syracuse University Chancellor and President Kent Syverud as its next president, a source close to the search process confirmed Sunday. The source spoke on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh arrive for the inauguration of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump in the U.S ...

When I was an undergraduate at the University of Michigan, the case of Grutter v. Bollinger was working its way through the federal courts. Lee Bollinger was president of the university, and as such ...

In just a few weeks, students will return to college campuses across the country—into an environment reshaped by the Supreme Court’s decision to end affirmative action. The effects are no longer ...

The Trump administration is threatening to cut off federal funding to Duke University and Duke Health. Scott Sharpe ssharpe@newsobserver.com AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI ...

“It is the policy of the United States to eliminate the use of disparate-impact liability in all contexts to the maximum degree possible to avoid violating the Constitution, Federal civil rights laws, ...