Decision issued: September 29, 2026Publicly reported: September 30, 2026Procedural status: Immigration-court removability ruling. Salah Sarsour has not been deported. Further proceedings concerning his fear of torture and a planned appeal remain pending. An immigration judge has ruled that Salah Sarsour, president of the Islamic Society of Milwaukee, is removable from the United States on foreign-policy…
Event and filing date: September 30, 2026Reported: September 30, 2026, 1:33 p.m. CentralProcedural status: Settled; parties filed a joint dismissal. No court finding of discrimination. Settlement terms have not been publicly reported. McDermott Will & Schulte has resolved a racial-discrimination and retaliation lawsuit brought by former associate Ashley Ogedegbe. Attorneys for both parties filed a…
Event: September 29, 2026Reported: September 29, 2026, approximately 7:45 p.m. CentralProcedural status: Judge announced termination of federal monitoring and the consent decree at a court hearing; a final written order is reportedly forthcoming. U.S. District Judge William Orrick announced the end of 23 years of federal oversight of the Oakland Police Department. The monitoring arose…
Filed: September 29, 2026Reported: September 30, 2026Procedural status: Federal subpoena-enforcement proceeding; no finding of discrimination has been made. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has asked the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts to compel Harvard University to produce records for an investigation into alleged systemic race- and sex-based employment discrimination. EEOC Chair…
September 30, 2026 The Trump administration is considering 43 State Department Human Rights and Democracy Fund awards totaling approximately $176.9 million, according to documents reviewed by The Guardian. The proposed projects reportedly include support connected to white Afrikaner rights in South Africa, protection of Christians in Nigeria, anti-communism initiatives, and programs addressing migration, free speech,…
Report date: September 30, 2026 (United Kingdom) Reuters publication: September 29, 2026, at 11:02 p.m. UTC (6:02 p.m. Central Time) Procedural status: Newly released civil-society monitoring report. It is not a government administrative finding, court ruling, criminal conviction, or independently adjudicated determination. What the report says The Community Security Trust (CST), a British charity that…
