San Francisco Settles Lawsuit Brought by CFER & the ACR Project
San Francisco has settled its part of CFER and the ACR Project's challenge to its discriminatory guarantied income programs.
UPDATE: MSI Developments in the Courts, the Administration, and the Congress
As 2025 comes to a close, we’re happy to report that policymakers across all three branches of the federal government are confronting the fundamental Constitutional problems with how Congress structured the Minority Serving Institutions programs.
ACR Project and Manhattan Institute Comment on CFPB’s Proposed Improvements to ECOA Regulations
The ACR Project and Manhattan Institute jointly comment in support of CFPB's proposed improvements to its Equal Credit Opportunity Act regulations.
ACR Project Files Administrative Complaint with DOJ and ED, Challenging UC System’s “Hispanic Serving Institutions” Grant Program
The ACR Project filed an administrative complaint with the U.S. Departments of Justice and Education, challenging the illegality of the University of California-Hispanic Serving Institutions Doctoral Diversity Initiative. The program prefers to send UC's funding to even private schools enrolling the proscribed racial balance than to let those dollars fund only work at UC campuses that don't.
UPDATE: ACR Project Alerts Ohio AG Yost to Public Records Documenting That Wright State Administered Racial Scholarships Far More Directly Than Previously Known
Public Records reflect that Wright State continued to directly administer racially discriminatory scholarships long after Ohio's AG instructed public institutions to comply with federal nondiscrimination law.
UPDATE: Court Approves Interventions in HSI Litigation
EDTN approves the ACR Project's intervention into the Constitutional challenge to the discriminatory provisions of the HSI programs.
ACR Project Files Amicus Brief with SCOTUS Supporting West Virginia’s Defense of Separate Sex Sports Programs
The ACR Project filed briefing at SCOTUS, supporting West Virginia's defense of its schools' separate boys' and girls' sports programs.
UPDATE: En Banc 11th Circuit Correctly Interprets Title VII Not to Compel Insurer-Provided Health Insurance Excluding Parallel Procedures to Cover “Sex Change” Surgeries
In October 2024, we filed with the en banc Eleventh [...]
Comment on Rescissions and Rule Modifications Following the Revocation of EO 11246
The ACR Project filed a comment supporting the DOL's rescission of rules rendered a nullity by President Trump's Equality Order. We highlighted additional justifications for the move and suggested further potential improvements that could be made to the related final regulations.
ACR Project and Manhattan Institute File Amicus Brief Supporting Petition for Cert in Challenge to Discriminatory SBA Program
With Manhattan Institute, the ACR Project filed an amicus brief at the Supreme Court. It asks the Justices to take a case and use it to free litigants from the standing trap (a pure catch-22) the Fourth Circuit has created to prevent challenges to racially discriminatory governmental presumptions.