After the Trump administration directed schools to dismantle diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs or risk losing federal funding, the University of Southern California (USC) has taken steps to comply. The university removed the website for its Office of Inclusion and Diversity, merged it with another entity, deleted DEI-related statements at various departments, and even altered faculty titles. Additionally, references to a scholarship for Black and Indigenous students were removed from online platforms.
In Mid-America Milling Company v. United States Department of Transportation, Case No. 3:23-cv-00072 (“Mid-America”), the plaintiffs challenged the Department of Transportation’s (DOT) use of a rebuttable presumption when...
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