October 18, 2024
U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth B. Prelogar is a once-in-a-generation talent who uses her seemingly endless knowledge of case facts and related law — along with her quick wit — to routinely spar with an often antithetical U.S. Supreme Court over some of the most consequential issues in a given term, experts and court watchers say.
June 29, 2023
President Joe Biden on Thursday slammed the U.S. Supreme Court for departing from decades of precedent and progress with its decision striking down affirmative action, but said expanding the high court would be "a mistake" because it has the potential to become "so politicized in the future."
June 29, 2023
Supreme Court Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson on Thursday rued the court's "impotence" to confront the enduring effects of race in American society, attacking the majority's ruling that struck down affirmative action in higher education as a flawed, two-dimensional take from conservative justices that betrays precedent.
June 29, 2023
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday struck down affirmative action admissions policies at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, undoing decades of precedent in a ruling that will have wide-ranging implications for academia and a potentially broad swath of the workforce.
January 02, 2023
The U.S. Supreme Court will hand down decisions in closely watched cases on affirmative action in higher education and companies' ability to deny services to LGBTQ customers, plus trial is finally set to begin in a long-running sex bias class action against Goldman Sachs. Here, Law360 examines the battles that discrimination attorneys should have on their radar in the new year.
November 04, 2022
This past week saw arguments in two highly anticipated cases over affirmative action at colleges and two more involving post-conviction relief for prisoners, as well as a protest that interrupted the justices' consideration of a tax case. Here, Law360 Pulse takes a data-driven dive into the week that was at the U.S. Supreme Court.
October 31, 2022
Monday's marathon Supreme Court hearings on the fate of affirmative action touched on fundamental questions ranging from what it means to be an American, to more Supreme Court-focused concerns like potential implications for hiring clerks and the dearth of female high court advocates. Here, Law360 recaps the key moments from the most closely watched cases of the term.
October 31, 2022
A handful of words in a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision could give the current high court an avenue to end the use of race in college admissions, experts told Law360 as they pointed to the justices' interest in affirmative action's purported sunset day.
October 31, 2022
The U.S. Supreme Court's conservative justices expressed doubt Monday that race should continue to be a factor in college admissions, hinting that they may overturn a decades-old precedent and steer schools toward "race-neutral" alternatives.
October 28, 2022
When the U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments Monday in two high-profile cases that could end affirmative action in the college admissions process, the justices will hear from the U.S. solicitor general, a WilmerHale legend, two of Justice Clarence Thomas' former law clerks — and a former air traffic controller.