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Jan 23, 2025 | jdsupra.com | Farnaz Thompson |Sarah Wake |Jack White

The Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity Executive Order (EO) issued on Jan. 22, 2025, takes aim at diversity, equity and inclusion programs at institutions of higher education.

Mar 28, 2024 | jdsupra.com | John Sullivan |Evan Tucker |Jack White

On March 5, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas ordered the Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) to cease using race or ethnicity as a basis for determining access to agency programming. Judge Mark T. Pittman’s opinion heavily relies on the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision, Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard (SFFA), in which the Supreme Court struck down the affirmative action student admissions policies of several universities.