Northwestern University has convinced a federal judge in Chicago to toss a lawsuit filed against the school alleging it discriminates against white men in its faculty hiring process.
The case was dismissed by U.S. District Judge Sarah Ellis, an Obama-appointee, who agreed with Northwestern’s argument that the plaintiff organization, Faculty, Alumni, and Students Opposed to Racial Preferences, lacked standing because it failed to show its members had actually applied for open positions at the law school, Reuters reported.
“The decision is the latest in a series of court setbacks for conservative legal groups targeting law schools, including unsuccessful discrimination cases against the Harvard Law Review in 2018 and the NYU Law Review in 2023,” the news outlet reported. “FASORP also sued the Michigan Law Review for discrimination in June but voluntarily dismissed the case in October.”
Northwestern University law school, America First Legal Foundation, and FASORP did not respond to The College Fix’s requests for comment.
Despite the loss in court, Northwestern University in December agreed to pay $75 million to resolve a federal anti-discrimination probe. As part of the settlement, the university agreed to end all affirmative action policies.
“Northwestern shall provide that all hiring, promotion, tenure, compensation, and other employment practices for faculty and administrative roles are grounded solely in individual qualifications and academic and professional merit,” the resolution states.
“Northwestern will not use race, color, sex, or national origin as a factor, implicit or explicit, in hiring, promotion, tenure, compensation, and other employment decisions across all schools, departments, and programs.”
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Judge tosses case claiming Northwestern Law discriminated against white men
