March 18, 2026
Penn State University faced headwinds at the Third Circuit on Wednesday as it pushed to preserve its trial court win over a white former professor's race discrimination suit, with one judge taking the school's attorney to task for categorizing the case as a broad attack on diversity, equity and inclusion programs.
February 27, 2026
A packed March argument calendar will put several high‑stakes disputes before the Third Circuit, including a billion‑dollar False Claims Act judgment and challenges at the intersection of academic freedom, DEI programming, cannabis‑sector finance and campus Title IX procedures.
February 27, 2026
A federal judge will consider forcing the University of Pennsylvania to give the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission contact information of Jewish employees who may have endured or witnessed on-campus antisemitism, and the Fourth Circuit will mull whether Liberty University should face a transgender former employee's lawsuit. Here are four oral arguments discrimination attorneys should watch in March.
January 23, 2026
The attorneys general of Texas and Florida each issued missives denouncing a plethora of diversity, equity and inclusion-related laws and private initiatives, and the U.S. Department of Education dropped an appeal over the invalidation of DEI-related guidance. Here, Law360 looks at notable DEI-related legal developments in the first month of 2026.