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National Association of African-American-Owned Media, 589 U.S. ___ (2020), is a United States Supreme Court case related to protections against racial discrimination in the Civil Rights Act of 1866. The case relates to whether cable television operator Comcast engaged in racial discrimination in refusing to carry channels from Entertainment ...
For a federal court to have diversity jurisdiction over a lawsuit, two conditions must be met. First, there must be "diversity of citizenship" between the parties, meaning the plaintiffs must be citizens of different U.S. states than the defendants. Second, the lawsuit's "amount in controversy" must be more than $75,000. If a lawsuit does not ...
He also led GBEF to form an umbrella group called the Council for Economic Opportunity & Social Justice alongside 12 other advocacy organizations including the NAACP and National Action Network. The council, which was announced in September 2023, is aimed at providing legal support for diversity equity and inclusion efforts, responding to ...
A major U.S. law firm has changed the criteria for a fellowship aimed at promoting diversity in the legal profession after the conservative activist behind the successful U.S. Supreme Court ...
By Jody Godoy (Reuters) -A U.S. judge on Friday dismissed as frivolous a conservative activist investor's lawsuit against Starbucks' board for the coffee chain's diversity, equity and inclusion ...
The suit is the latest of its kind to be filed across the country targeting diversity, equity and inclusion programs in the […] The post Lawsuit alleges State Bar of Wisconsin minority program ...
The group's first lawsuit was in 2023 against the Fearless Fund, a venture capital fund that supports Black women business owners, it was founded to award grants to Black women who own small businesses through one of its programs. Blum's lawsuit challenges the legality of the grantmaking program under Section 1981 of the Civil Rights Act of 1866.
CBS filed a motion Thursday to throw out a lawsuit challenging its diversity hiring practices for writers on the show “SEAL Team,” arguing that it has a First Amendment right to hire who it wants.