Washington, D.C. – The Center for Individual Rights filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday, April 6 challenging racial preferences in student assignments to the acclaimed St. Paul, MN Capitol Hill Magnet school. At issue is a school district policy that leaves available classroom seats unfilled in order to achieve the district’s
Read More → Posted in Press ReleasesWashington, D.C. – In a decision that significantly reinforces First Amendment protections for citizens who challenge government actions, U.S. District Court Judge Marilyn Hall Patel ruled on Friday (December 18) that HUD officials are liable in their personal capacity for investigating three Berkeley area residents who opposed the location of
Read More → Posted in Press ReleasesWashinton, D.C. – The Center for Individual Rights filed a class action lawsuit today against the University of Michigan Law School seeking to have that school’s admissions policies declared unconstitutional. Today’s lawsuit follows an earlier lawsuit filed against the University of Michigan undergraduate College of Literature, Sciences and the Arts.
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Read More → Posted in Press ReleasesWashington, D.C. – The Center for Individual Rights filed a class action lawsuit today against the University of Michigan seeking to have its admissions policies declared unconstitutional. Along with co-counsel David F. Herr and Kirk Kolbo of the Minneapolis firm of Maslon, Edelman, Borman & Brand LLP, CIR is representing
Read More → Posted in Press ReleasesWashington, D.C.- The Center for Individual Rights, the public interest law firm that successfully represented Cheryl Hopwood in her discrimination lawsuit against the University of Texas School of Law, agreed today to represent Mr. Jessie Thompkins, a graduate student at Alabama State University(ASU), in his lawsuit challenging all-white scholarships at
Read More → Posted in Cases, Press ReleasesLaw School accused of using illegal racial preferences in admissions
Washington, D.C. – Katuria Smith, assisted by the Washington, D.C. based Center for Individual Rights (CIR), filed a lawsuit late yesterday claiming that the University of Washington School of Law (UWSL) discriminated against her on the basis of her race (white)
Read More → Posted in Press ReleasesWashington, D.C.- The Center for Individual Rights (CIR) sued Texas A&M and the National Institutes for Health (NIH) this week for operated a segregated summer science program. CIR filed its lawsuit on behalf of “Michelle Doe,” a sixteen year-old white high school student who was denied access to a science
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