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		<title>Trump Administration Investigates Minnesota Agency&#8217;s Affirmative Action Policy</title>
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					<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2025 15:26:39 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[The Trump administration said Thursday that it has opened an investigation into whether a Minnesota state agency&#8217;s newly updated affirmative action policy violates civil rights laws. The Minnesota Department of Human Services&#8217; policy requires supervisors to provide a &#8220;hiring justification &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Texas Tech Medical School Settles Suit Over Alleged Race-Based Admissions Practices</title>
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					<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2025 16:21:18 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[A group led by Stephen Miller, President Donald Trump&#8217;s deputy chief of staff, is claiming victory after it got a commitment from Texas Tech&#8217;s medical school not to consider race in admission decisions, which the school continues to deny ever &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>State Bar of Wisconsin Agrees to Change Diversity Definition in Lawsuit Settlement</title>
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					<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2024 16:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin association representing attorneys agreed last week to change the definition of &#8220;diversity&#8221; to settle a federal lawsuit brought by a conservative law firm that argued its internship program unconstitutionally discriminates based on race. The &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Corporate America Is Rethinking Diversity Hiring as Legal Challenges Rise</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2023/11/22/749406.htm</link>
		
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					<pubDate>Wed, 22 Nov 2023 12:59:05 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[The same conservative activists who helped gut race-related college admissions at the US Supreme Court have now set their sights on corporate diversity programs, barraging airlines, tech giants and law firms with lawsuits and complaints. And they&#8217;re already having an &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Critics of Workplace Diversity Efforts Eye Civil War-Era Law</title>
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					<pubDate>Fri, 01 Sep 2023 14:41:26 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Several suits filed on behalf of White workers following the US Supreme Court&#8217;s decision outlawing affirmative action in higher education are banking on a Civil War-era statute guaranteeing equal rights to Black Americans to challenge the legality of corporate diversity, &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Activist Behind Affirmative Action Cases Sues Major Law Firms</title>
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					<pubDate>Tue, 22 Aug 2023 18:45:05 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[A group founded by the conservative activist who led the successful U.S. Supreme Court challenge to the consideration of race in college admissions on Tuesday sued two major U.S. law firms over fellowships they offer to racial minorities and LGBT &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Biden Administration Opens Investigation Into Harvard University&#8217;s Legacy Admissions</title>
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					<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jul 2023 13:04:35 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Opening a new front in legal battles over college admissions, the U.S. Department of Education has launched a civil rights investigation into Harvard University`s policies on legacy admissions. Top colleges` preferential treatment of children of alumni, who are often white, &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>GOP Attorneys General Shift Battle Over Affirmative Action to Workplace</title>
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					<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jul 2023 14:36:32 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Thirteen Republican state attorneys general are cautioning CEOs of the 100 biggest U.S. companies on the legal consequences for using race as a factor in hiring and employment practices, demonstrating how the Supreme Court&#8217;s recent ruling dismantling affirmative action in &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Virginia High School Admissions Case May Prompt Next Affirmative Action Ruling</title>
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					<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jul 2023 05:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[A federal appeals court&#8217;s ruling last month about the admissions policy at an elite public high school in Virginia may provide a vehicle for the U.S. Supreme Court to flesh out the intended scope of its ruling Thursday banning affirmative &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Supreme Court Rejects Use of Race in University Admissions</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2023/06/29/727915.htm</link>
		
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					<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jun 2023 15:51:58 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[The US Supreme Court effectively barred universities from using race as a factor in university admissions, marking the start of a new era in higher education and rolling back decades of precedents. Voting 6-3 along ideological lines, the justices said &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Missed Deadline Costs Harvard $15M in Insurance for Admissions Policy Defense</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/east/2022/11/03/693098.htm</link>
		
					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andrew G. Simpson]]></dc:creator>
					<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2022 05:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Harvard University&#8217;s failure to notify its insurer by the policy deadline has cost it up to $15 million in insurance coverage to help it defray costs related to its ongoing defense of its affirmative action admissions program. U.S. District Judge &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Opponents Ask Supreme Court to Halt Harvard&#8217;s Use of Race in Admissions</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2021/02/26/602887.htm</link>
		
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					<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2021 06:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Opponents of policies used by universities to increase their numbers of Black and Hispanic students asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday to prohibit Harvard University&#8217;s consideration of race in undergraduate admissions in a case that could end such affirmative &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Justice Department Alleges Yale Illegally Discriminates Against Asians, Whites</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2020/08/14/579136.htm</link>
		
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					<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2020 11:05:53 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday accused Yale University of illegally discriminating against Asian American and white applicants in its undergraduate admissions process in violation of U.S. civil rights law. The findings are the result of a two-year investigation in &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Judge Rules Harvard&#8217;s &#8216;Fine Admissions Policy&#8217; Passes Constitutional Test</title>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2019 05:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Harvard University&#8217;s undergraduate admissions program does not discriminate against Asian-American applicants, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday, rejecting a lawsuit brought by opponents of affirmative action and backed by the Trump administration. The lawsuit was brought by a group hoping &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Admissions Bias Claim Against Harvard Must Go to Bench Trial</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2018/10/01/503018.htm</link>
		
					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andrew G. Simpson]]></dc:creator>
					<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2018 05:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Harvard, the nation&#8217;s oldest university, must go to trial to defend a lawsuit claiming it discriminates against Asian-American applicants. A Boston federal judge&#8217;s rejection Friday of requests by both sides for a win before trial sets up a final showdown &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Justice Department Supports Case Alleging Harvard Bias in Admissions</title>
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					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andrew G. Simpson]]></dc:creator>
					<pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2018 05:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday backed a lawsuit accusing Harvard University of discriminating against Asian-American applicants, throwing its support behind a case that could impact the use of race-based college admissions. The department, which has been investigating Harvard for &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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