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Next week, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral argument for the second time in Abigail Fisher's case against the University of Texas at Austin.  The Fresno Bee's editorial board chimed in on the case yesterday, criticizing California's Proposition 209 and blaming its passage for the lack of diversity among students in the University of California ...

Clean Water Act This week, we submitted comments on the Army Corps of Engineers and EPA's proposed rule redefining the term "waters of the United States" under the Clean Water Act. The rule, if adopted, would be the largest expansion of power ever proposed by a federal agency. It would give the Federal Government regulatory power over all waters i ...

University of New Mexico School of Law Professor Dawinder Sidhu has an excellent article caption id="" align="alignright" width="290" Brad Pitt as Billy Beane/caption available at SSRN about the criminal justice's system increasing use of statistics to predict a defendant's future dangerousness.  Professor Sidhu analogizes to the concept of Money ...

Yesterday PLF filed this brief amicus curiae in support of Abigail Fisher.  PLF was joined on the brief by our friends from Center for Equal Opportunity, Project 21, Reason Foundation, and Individual Rights Foundation.  Ms. Fisher continues to fight for her right to be treated equally under the law.  As you recall, last year the Supreme Court rever ...

Over the past year, advocates of racial preferences have suffered so many setbacks that racial preferences are becoming extinct. The first setback came last June in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin. In that case, the U.S. Supreme Court expressed deep skepticism about the University's attempt to racially balance its student body. The Court ...

Today, Pacific Legal Foundation filed this amicus brief in Fisher v. University of Texas—which is in the Fifth Circuit after being remanded from the Supreme Court last summer.  We were joined on the brief by the American Civil Rights Institute (ACRI), the Center for Equal Opportunity (CEO), Individual Rights Foundation (IRF), Reason Foundation, Pro ...

It's only been a few hours since the Court announced its 7-1 opinion in Fisher v. University of Texas.  The Court upheld (for the time being) diversity in education as a legitimate goal that universities could pursue, but instructed the Fifth Circuit to apply a strict level of scrutiny to the way the University of Texas-Austin chose to do so.  Alre ...

On November 16, in San Francisco County Superior Court, department 302, at 9:30 a.m., the court will hear oral argument on the cross-motions for summary judgment in the case called Coral Construction v. City and County of San Francisco.  At the hearing, attorneys for San Francisco will make an argument that no court has ever accepted, or been asked ...

On Monday, the Center for Equal Opportunity released a study showing that the University of Oklahoma granted racial preferences in student admissions in law, undergraduate and medical school. According to the study, minority students were admitted to undergraduate school despite having lower college entrance examination scores and high school grad ...