April 16, 2025
A federal judge tossed a suit Wednesday from a white former writing professor who alleged that Pennsylvania State University reprimanded and poorly evaluated him for raising concerns that he faced racial bias on campus, finding he didn't suffer significant enough consequences to sustain retaliation claims.
March 07, 2025
President Donald Trump issued an executive order calling on the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to vet large law firms' diversity initiatives for compliance with Title VII, while a federal judge in Maryland refused to pause an injunction that stymied key parts of anti-DEI executive orders. Here, Law360 recaps DEI-related developments from the past week that employment lawyers should have on their radar.
March 06, 2025
Penn State largely defeated a suit from an ex-professor who said white instructors had been vilified, with a Pennsylvania federal judge ruling Thursday that no reasonable juror could find that campuswide emails and workshops about anti-racist teaching methods created an intolerable work environment.