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Paul Hastings LLP

Illinois District Court Blocks Portions of Anti-DEI Executive Order

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There are several concurrent challenges to President Donald Trump’s “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity” executive order (Anti-DEI EO). Previously, the U.S. District Court for the District of...more

Stinson LLP

Injunction Lifted Against Key Portions of President Trump’s Anti-Diversity, Equity and Inclusion 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 stayed the nationwide injunction a federal district court had issued in National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education...more

Hinckley Allen

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

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Fourth Circuit Terminates Maryland District Court’s DEI Injunction

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On March 14, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the  Fourth Circuit granted the government’s motion for a stay pending appeal, terminating a Maryland district court’s injunction of certain elements of President Trump’s January 20...more

Potomac Law Group, PLLC

Coalition of Organizations and Businesses Challenges Injunction Against the Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Program

On Friday, January 24, 2025, the National Association of Minority Contractors (“NAMC”); Women First National Legislative Committee; Airport Minority Advisory Council (“AMAC”); Women Construction Owners & Executives, Illinois...more

Littler

Strike Two… Eleventh Circuit Upholds Injunction Against Florida “Stop-WOKE” Law; Confirms the Law Violates First Amendment

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Strike One… In 2021 Florida passed a unique law known as the Individual Freedom Act (IFA), or “Stop-WOKE” law (the state’s acronym for “Stop Wrongs to Our Kids and Employees”). The IFA contains two parts, one directed to...more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

Eleventh Circuit Won't Remove Block on Florida Anti-DEI Training Law

On Monday, a unanimous panel of the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals refused to reverse an injunction barring enforcement of portions of Florida’s Individual Freedom Act. The law in question would bar employers from...more

Proskauer - Corporate Defense and Disputes

Eleventh Circuit Affirms Injunction Against Florida Statute Concerning Mandatory Diversity Training

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit affirmed an injunction against enforcement of portions of Florida’s “anti-woke” law, which prohibits employers from requiring employees to attend training sessions or other...more

Proskauer - California Employment Law

Court Declares California Law Requiring Diverse Corporate Boards Unconstitutional

As discussed in our previous blog, on April 1, 2022, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge, Terry Green, granted summary judgment in favor of individuals represented by D.C.-based nonprofit Judicial Watch, declaring Assembly Bill...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

California’s Board Diversity Law Tossed by Judge; Other Board Diversity Efforts Continue

On April 1, 2022, Judge Terry Green of the Los Angeles Superior Court struck down California’s AB 979, which required publicly held companies based in California to have at least one board director from an “underrepresented...more

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