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Federal Courts Temporarily Block Enforcement of U.S. Department of Education "Dear Colleague Letter" Barring "Illegal DEI" in...

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On April 24, 2025, Judges Landya McCafferty and Stephanie Gallagher, sitting in the United States District Courts in New Hampshire and Maryland, respectively, issued rulings blocking the U.S. Department of Education (DOE)...more

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Federal Court Puts Brakes on Trump-Era DEI Ban for Contractors: What California Employers Need to Know

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Federal courts continue to navigate the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (“DEI”) landscape including Executive Orders targeting DEI. In a recent development last week, U.S. District Judge Matthew Kennelly granted a...more

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Supreme Court Lifts Restraining Order on Grant Terminations

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The Supreme Court recently issued a ruling with significant impacts for federal contractors and grantees looking to challenge terminations of their contracts and grants in U.S. district courts. Terminated contractors and...more

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Trump’s DEI Executive Orders Hit Another Judicial Roadblock

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On Tuesday, April 15, 2025, Judge Matthew Kennelly of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois granted a motion for preliminary injunction barring the U.S. Department of Labor from enforcing the...more

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Employment Law Update: DEI Injunction Lifted and EEOC Issues DEI Guidance Documents

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The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals has lifted a nationwide injunction on the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Executive Orders issued by President Trump in January 2025. This means the DEI Executive Orders can and will...more

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U.S. District Court Judge Temporarily Blocks Department of Labor from Enforcing Certain Provisions of DEI-Related Executive Orders

On March 27, 2025, Judge Matthew Kennelly of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois issued a temporary restraining order blocking the Department of Labor from enforcing certain provisions of Executive...more

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The Evolving Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Landscape: What to Do Now?

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In January 2025, President Donald J. Trump signed several Executive Orders immediately after being sworn into office. Executive Order 14151 “Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Program and Preferencing” and Executive...more

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Chicago Federal District Court Issues Targeted Order Enjoining Department of Labor from Presenting DEI Certifications to Federal...

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On March 27, 2025, a federal district court in Chicago issued a temporary restraining order (TRO) blocking the Department of Labor from implementing key provisions from two of President Trump’s Executive Orders issued in...more

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Federal Court of Appeals Stays Preliminary Injunction on Trump DEI Executive Orders

On Friday, March 14, 2025, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals lifted a preliminary injunction on President Trump’s Executive Orders regarding DEI.  In concurring opinions, the judges expressed varying levels of support for...more

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#WorkforceWednesday®: Federal Contractors Alert - DEI Restrictions Reinstated by Appeals Court - Employment Law This Week®

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This week, we’re focused on federal contractors and the effects that the reinstatement of Executive Orders 14151 and 14173 will have on employers: President Trump’s executive orders against diversity, equity, and inclusion...more

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Fourth Circuit Lifts Injunction on Key DEI Executive Order Provisions

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The Fourth Circuit recently lifted the nationwide preliminary injunction that had blocked federal agencies from carrying out key provisions in two of President Trump’s Executive Orders on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion...more

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Appeals Court Overturns Nationwide Injunction on DEI Executive Order, Plus New DEI Guidance from EEOC

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As we reported on January 22, 2025, and January 29, 2025, the Trump Administration issued Executive Orders targeting diversity, equity, and inclusion (“DEI”) initiatives in the federal government and private sector, namely...more

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Fourth Circuit Lifts Nationwide Injunction of Executive Orders Addressing DEI Programs

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Departing from a pattern of recent federal district court decisions, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit granted the government’s application for stay pending appeal of a nationwide preliminary injunction against...more

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Court of Appeals Order Will Allow DEI Executive Orders to Take Effect, Pending Further Review

In a decision on Friday, March 14, 2025, a panel of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a stay pending appeal in a legal challenge to a pair of President Trump’s executive orders which promulgated new policy directives...more

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Appeals Court Lifts Injunction on Trump Administration’s DEI Executive Orders

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On March 14, 2025, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit lifted a lower court’s preliminary injunction blocking key provisions of President Donald Trump’s executive orders aimed at ending...more

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Fourth Circuit Allows Anti-DEI Executive Order Provisions Involving Federal Contractors and Grantees to Proceed

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On March 14, 2025, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit lifted a nationwide preliminary injunction that previously halted parts of two DEI-related executive orders signed by President Donald...more

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Appeals Court Lifts Injunction on DEI Related Executive Orders

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On March 14, 2025, a three-judge panel of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, issued an order granting the Trump Administration’s motion to stay enforcement of the District Court’s nationwide preliminary injunction on two...more

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Fourth Circuit Stays Preliminary Injunction of Executive Orders Related to DEI Programs

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On March 14, 2025, the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit issued a stay on the US District Court for the District of Maryland’s nationwide preliminary injunction of US President Donald Trump’s executive orders (EOs)...more

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Fourth Circuit Stays Preliminary Injunction That Blocked Key Portions of Anti-DEI Executive Orders

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On March 14, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit granted the federal government’s request to stay, pending appeal, a nationwide preliminary injunction issued by the U.S. District Court for the District of...more

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Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals Stays Preliminary Injunction of Anti-DEI Executive Order

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On March 14, 2025, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals stayed the nationwide preliminary injunction previously issued by the District of Maryland, which had enjoined certain aspects of Executive Order No. 14173, President...more

Hahn Loeser & Parks LLP

Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals Allows for Enforcement of DEI-Related Executive Orders Pending Appeal

On March 14, 2025, The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit granted the government’s request to stay a nationwide preliminary injunction that blocked enforcement of elements of President Trump’s Executive Order 14173...more

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What to Know: Injunction of Certain Trump DEI Executive Order Provisions Lifted

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On March 14, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit granted the government’s request to stay a Maryland federal judge’s nationwide preliminary injunction that temporarily stopped three key provisions of...more

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Fourth Circuit Temporarily Allows DEI-Related EOs to Continue

As we previously reported, on March 3, 2025, the Maryland District Court denied Defendants’ motion to stay the preliminary injunction in National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education v. Trump, preventing the...more

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Appeals Court Lifts Injunction on Executive Orders 14173 and 14151

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On March 14, 2025, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit granted the government's Motion for a Stay Pending Appeal in the lawsuit concerning two Executive Orders aimed at ending diversity, equity, and...more

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Fourth Circuit Reinstates Anti-DEI Executive Orders Pending Further Litigation

On February 21, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland entered a preliminary injunction blocking the enforcement of important aspects of two Executive Orders: “Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI...more

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