In North End Chamber of Commerce (“NECC”) v. City of Boston, the NECC and several restaurants in the North End neighborhood of Boston (“Plaintiffs”) filed suit against the City of Boston (“City”), ...

Please note that SCOTUS Outside Opinions constitute the views of outside contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of SCOTUSblog or its staff. One of the most striking things about oral ...

The University of Oregon was named in a civil rights complaint on March 4 regarding four UO scholarships that allegedly discriminate based on race, color, national origin and/or sex. The complaint, ...

The Equal Protection Project filed a complaint against Indiana University in July last year. Six months later, the group has not heard back from the Department of Education. The EPP is a nonprofit ...

My last post offered examples of areas where symmetry could help guide future doctrinal development. This final post on my book addresses three of the most fraught areas of constitutional law: equal ...

Justice Kagan ponders at great length about whether there can be an as-applied challenge based on the Equal Protection Clause. At times, the Supreme Court goes through jurisprudential fads. I am not ...

When the Supreme Court hears an appeal Wednesday from transgender youths challenging a Tennessee ban on their medical care, fundamental principles forbidding sex discrimination will be on the line.

As the Supreme Court heard arguments in a racially charged Louisiana voting rights case last month, down on its ground floor a special exhibit was running a continual loop of commentary from Chief ...

Current substantive due process and equal protection doctrines do not recognize a constitutional right to plural civil marriage. Under the history-and-tradition framework established in Washington v.

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (WSBT) — Indiana University South Bend is being accused of discriminating against race, color, and national origin in a formal complaint. That complaint was filed by the civil rights ...

The Equal Protection Project filed a civil rights complaint Sept. 3 against UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business Thrive Fellows Program. The complaint, which was filed with the U.S. Department of ...

The Equal Protection Project filed a federal civil rights complaint against Drake University, alleging its Crew Scholars Program unlawfully excludes White students. The complaint argues the program ...