October 05, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court refused Monday to review a Black police officer's lawsuit claiming he was unlawfully fired after posting homemade rap videos online, declining his invitation to revisit a landmark 1973 ruling on evidentiary standards in bias cases.
September 25, 2026
As the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to kick off a new term, the justices have several pending petitions in their queue that raise hot-button antidiscrimination law issues, including whether mandatory diversity training can sustain a lawsuit and if a decades-old, burden-shifting test should stay on the books. Here are 10 bids for review attorneys might want to keep an eye on.
September 23, 2026
Two certiorari petitions that the U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to consider Monday call for the demise of a decades-old framework for evaluating workplace discrimination cases, and experts say the requests to do away with the legal standard may be increasingly compelling as resistance to the doctrine grows.
June 10, 2026
A Black police officer asked the U.S. Supreme Court to take up his case alleging he was fired out of race bias, claiming the Sixth Circuit was too quick to accept the argument that rap videos he posted online were the reason for his termination.