http://www.cir-usa.org/ The Center for Individual Rights (CIR) is a nonprofit public interest law firm dedicated to the defense of individual liberties against the increasingly aggressive and unchecked authority of federal and state governments. http://cir-usa.org/updates/index.html#130 April 7 2007 - The National Association of Scholars website has posted an article authored by CIR president Terence Pell about recent CIR efforts to force force three Michigan ... 2008-04-07 http://cir-usa.org/updates/index.html#129 On April 1, 2008, CIR filed suit against officials of the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing charging that they willfully violated the First Amendment rights of California citizen ... 2008-04-01 http://cir-usa.org/updates/index.html#128 On March 18 2008, U.S. District Court Judge David Lawson ruled that Michigan’s Prop. 2 does not violate the U.S. Constitution. Lawson’s decision is a victory for CIR client Eric Russell ... 2008-03-18 http://cir-usa.org/updates/index.html#127 February 22 2008 -- In a hearing called today to consider CIR's suit to rid Mark Twain Intermediate school of illegal racial quotas in admissions, U.S. District Judge Jack Weinstein ... 2008-02-22 http://cir-usa.org/updates/index.html#126 February 12, 2008 - The New York City Department of Education today joined CIR in asking Federal District Court Judge Jack Weinstein to terminate the 1974 desegregation decree that imposes ... 2008-02-12 http://cir-usa.org/updates/index.html#125 On Wednesday, February 6 2008, CIR co-counsel Charles J. Cooper will urge U.S. Federal District Court Judge David Lawson to reject all pending legal challenges to Prop. 2 as a ... 2008-02-05 http://cir-usa.org/updates/index.html#124 January 14, 2008 -- CIR today filed suit to end a racial quota at prestigious Mark Twain Intermediate School, a New York City magnet school. The relic of a ... 2008-01-14 http://cir-usa.org/updates/index.html#123 On November 28, CIR co-counsel Charles J. Cooper was scheduled to appear before U.S. Federal district court Judge David Lawson to argue that CIR client Eric Russell has a sufficient ... 2007-11-27 http://cir-usa.org/updates/index.html#122 On November 19, 2007, the Center for Individual Rights filed a class action lawsuit against the New York City Department of Education challenging the Department’s policy of excluding Asian American ... 2007-11-19 http://cir-usa.org/updates/index.html#121 CIR travelled to Cincinnati on Wednesday, July 25 to persuade a three judge panel to leave standing an August, 2006 ruling that allowed Michigan's Prop. 2 to appear on the ... 2007-07-27 http://cir-usa.org/updates/index.html#120 The Supreme Court divided 5-4 on Thursday in striking down race based student assignment plans in the public schools of Seattle and Louisville. Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., wrote ... 2007-06-28 http://cir-usa.org/updates/index.html#119 On June 25, the Supreme Court ruled that school officials may punish student speech that appears to endorse the use of illegal drugs. The Court created an exception to the ... 2007-06-26 http://cir-usa.org/updates/index.html#118 Emily Smith, whom CIR successfully represented in a challenge to the Dow Jones News Foundation's minority-only summer journalism workshops, was featured in a short segment on ABC World News Tonight. ... 2007-06-24 http://cir-usa.org/updates/index.html#114 Federal District Court Judge B. Lynn Winmill issued a 62 page ruling on February 25 finding that city and state officials in Boise, Idaho violated the constitutional rights of members ... 2007-03-01 http://cir-usa.org/updates/index.html#112 On February 14, CIR filed a notice of settlement in its pending case challenging minority-only summer journalism workshops sponsored by the Dow Jones Newspaper Fund and several dozen public and ... 2007-02-14