Sheppard Mullin’s Black Lawyers Network is hosting a virtual event for Black History Month on “Affirmative Action—Its History and Its Future: Exploring the Potential Implications for the U.S. Supreme Court’s Decision” Featuring EJS Legal Director Mona Tawatao, civil rights litigator, activist, and co-author of an amicus curiae brief in support of the respondents in the Harvard and UNCContinue reading “Sheppard Mullin Black History Month Webinar on Affirmative Action with EJS Legal Director Mona Tawatao”
Category Archives: affirmative action
Report: Supreme Court’s Right-Wing Supermajority Gearing Up to Gut Affirmative Action
New issue brief by Equal Justice Society and Take Back the Court lays out stakes of Court’s threat to equitable education this term As the Supreme Court gears up to attack affirmative action this fall, Take Back the Court and Equal Justice Society today released a new report laying out the stakes of the consolidated cases Students for Fair AdmissionsContinue reading “Report: Supreme Court’s Right-Wing Supermajority Gearing Up to Gut Affirmative Action”
California ChangeLawyers, Equal Justice Society, Wilson Sonsini File Amicus Brief in Support of College Admissions Policies That Foster Diversity
California ChangeLawyers, Equal Justice Society, and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, filed an amicus brief in the Supreme Court of the United States in Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) v. Harvard. Endorsed by 22 other organizations, the brief asks the Court to uphold more than four decades of precedent allowing the consideration of race asContinue reading “California ChangeLawyers, Equal Justice Society, Wilson Sonsini File Amicus Brief in Support of College Admissions Policies That Foster Diversity”