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…
Decision date: September 28, 2026 Procedural status: Published appellate ruling reversing summary judgment on two hostile-work-environment claims and returning them to the district court. This is not a finding that Seattle discriminated or that the allegations are true. What the court decided A unanimous Ninth Circuit panel ruled that former Seattle Human Services Department employee…
Decision and publication date: September 29, 2026Procedural status: Temporary Supreme Court stay pending full review—not a final merits ruling. Oral arguments are expected in December. Summary The U.S. Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to resume deporting migrants to countries other than their own without the notice and opportunity to raise country-specific persecution or torture…
Event date: September 29, 2026Official publication date: September 29, 2026Procedural status: Announced municipal policy and funding initiative—not a court ruling, investigation, or finding of discrimination. Summary Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced New York City’s first citywide strategy addressing antisemitism and anti-Jewish hate crimes. The plan includes $6.4 million for Partners Against the Hate grants supporting hate-crime…
Publication date: September 28, 2026 Procedural status: This is a final, unanimously approved advisory report from the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. It is not a court ruling, enforcement order, or finding of liability against any individual university. Summary The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights has released its final report, The Federal Response to Antisemitism…
September 22, 2026 · Federal administrative finding The U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division announced a finding that the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine discriminated on the basis of race when selecting its 2023, 2024, and 2025 entering classes. UCSF disputes the department’s conclusions. What the Justice Department found According to…
