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.
For NAS & FASORP, the ACR Project Moves to Intervene in Tennessee’s HSI Litigation
For NAS and FASORP, the ACR Project filed to join Tennessee's challenge to the Hispanic Serving Institutions programs' discriminatory criteria.
ACR Project Warns Auburn University & the Auburn University Foundation of the Unconstitutionality of Their Race-Based Scholarships
Today we warned Auburn University and the Auburn University Foundation that their racially exclusive scholarships violate the U.S. Constitution and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, among other federal civil rights laws.
Sacramento Settles Lawsuit Brought by CFER and the ACR Project
Sacramento County has settled our challenge to its so-called “guaranteed income” program that unlawfully chose beneficiaries based on race.
Issue Guide–Fair Play: How the Law Protects Employees Disclosing Discrimination (Even the Fashionable “Woke” Kind) from Retaliation
The ACR Project published a new Issue Guide--Fair Play: How the Law Protects Employees Disclosing Discrimination (Even the Fashionable "Woke" Kind) from Retaliation.
Disparate-Impact Liability: Unfounded, Unconstitutional, & Not Long For This World
No Congress ever passed, no President ever signed, and as a result Title VII never contained (and does not contain now) any language outlawing employment policies bearing disparate impacts across demographic groups or imposing disparate-impact liability on employers for using such policies. Our entire 54-year foray since Griggs has been an unwarranted mistake, which has harmed American employment law and infected other areas with concepts incompatible with core constitutional commitments.
Dan Morenoff Testifies Before House Higher Education & Workforce Development Subcommittee on Patterns of Illegal Discrimination Across Higher Education (and What Congress Can Do About Them)
On May 21, 2025, the U.S. House Subcommittee on Higher Education & Workforce Development heard testimony from our ED Dan Morenoff at its second hearing on Restoring Excellence: the Case Against DEI. You can read his full written testimony here.