Case Status: Loss. U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit affirmed district court ruling granting defendants' motion for summary judgement.
Miami University Wrestling Club v. Miami University of Ohio
CIR challenged the elimination of men's athletic teams to achieve parity in participation and spending on men's and women's teams...
Case Status: Settled. University of Minnesota agreed to abolish female-only pay raises and distribute salary equitably.
Maitland v. University of Minnesota
CIR challenged a 1989 consent decree whereby the University of Minnesota agreed to distribute $3 million to female faculty members to remedy alleged gender disparities in salary...
Case Status: Settled by stipulation filed July 6, 1999.
Hampton v. National Research Group
CIR filed an amicus brief urging the California Supreme Court to overturn a ruling that discussion of sexual themes in writers' meetings for the television show 'Friends' created a hostile work environment and is not…
Case Status: Victory
Jacobs v. Independent School District No. 625
The Center for Individual Rights filed a federal lawsuit challenging a racial preference policy that left available classroom seats unfilled in order to achieve the district’s desired racial balance...
Case Status: Victory
CUC v. Oliver: Fact Sheet
Supreme Court denies review of school funding decision The U.S. Supreme Court announced on June 14 that it will not accept for review Columbia Union College’s appeal of a lower court order requiring an investigation…
Case Status: Partial Win: The Supreme Court struck down the UM undergraduate admissions system but upheld the law school system.
Gratz v. Bollinger; Grutter v. Bollinger
CIR filed two lawsuits challenging the use of racial preferences at the University of Michigan and the University of Michigan law school...
Case Status: Victory. Case settled prior to trial.
Turner v. Browner
Cir challenged an agency-wide affirmative action plan maintained by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency...
Case Status: Partial Victory. District court judge modified scholarship to include applicants of any race.
Tompkins v. Alabama State University
The Center for Individual Rights agreed to represent Mr. Jessie Tompkins, a graduate student at Alabama State University, in his lawsuit challenging court mandated all-white scholarships at the historically black university...
Case Status: Loss
Smith v. University of Washington
CIR's 1997 lawsuit challenging racial preferences at the University of Washington on behalf of several law school applicants including Katuria Smith. Smith grew up in poverty, with an alcoholic father and step-father, and struggled through…
Case Status: Victory
Doe v. Department of Health and Human Services
CIR successfully challenged the unconstitutional exclusion of "Michelle Doe," a sixteen year old high school girl, from a "minorities-only" summer study program solely because of her race...
Case Status: Victory
Coalition for Economic Equity v. Wilson
In 1996, the Center for Individual Rights intervened in a lawsuit to defend the results of a popular vote on Proposition 209, the California Civil Rights Initiative, which prohibited the use of racial and gender…
Case Status: Victory. Morrison is one of the defining Commerce Clause precedents of the decade.
U.S. v. Morrison
CIR defended a student athlete in a civil suit against ill-founded charges of rape. The case successfully challenged portions of 1994 Violence Against Women Act as unconstitutional exercise of Congress's authority under the Commerce Clause…
Case Status: Victory
Columbia Union College v. Oliver
CUC, a small four-year college with about 600 students, had been denied a public grant by the state of Maryland because its Seventh-day Adventist composition made it "pervasively sectarian." Or, in plain English, CUC was…
Case Status: Settled on terms favorable to CIR's client
DynaLantic Corp. v. Department of Defense
CIR successfully represented a small Long Island company whose ability to compete (and even stay in business) was hobbled by the federal government's extensive use of race preferences in awarding government contracts...
Case Status: Loss. Petition for Writ of Certiorari denied on June 29, 2000.
Boulahanis v. Board of Regents, Illinois State University
CIR challenged the elimination of Illinois State men's athletic teams to achieve identical rates of participation and spending on men's and women's teams, regardless of interest levels...
Case Status: Loss. N.Y. Court of Appeals upheld lower court dismissal of case.
Maas v. Cornell University
CIR contested, on contractual and other grounds, a private university's sanctions against a senior professor over ill-founded sexual harassment charges...
Case Status: Victory
Rosenberger v. University of Virginia
In 1995, CIR fought and won a case before the Supreme Court that affirmed that government cannot exclude faith-based student organizations from programs because of their religious viewpoint...
Case Status: Loss
Gee v. Humphries
CIR challenged a state college's suspension and termination of Gerald Gee, a white professor who was said to have "harassed" students at historically black Florida A&M University...
Case Status: Victory, later modified in Grutter v. Bollinger
Hopwood v. Texas
CIR won a historic victory in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals case Hopwood v. Texas. The Fifth Circuit ruling barred all use of racial preferences in university admissions in the states under that court’s…
Case Status: Victory
Silva v. University of New Hampshire
CIR's 1994 victory against the University of New Hampshire was the first successful case against university speech codes and an affirmation of First Amendment rights in the classroom...