April 2009

New Haven Firefighters Case in the News

April 14, 2009

The New Haven firefighters case has been firing up the presses in the past couple of weeks. See previous blog coverage here. Various news sites and blogs have covered the topic since the Supreme Court announced that it would hear arguments in Ricci v. DeStefano this month. Over a dozen white firefighters and one Hispanic filed [...]

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California State Agency Develops Race-Based Hiring Plan

April 9, 2009

Despite a law that bars the state from discriminating against or granting preferences to individuals or groups in hiring, contracting, and admissions based on factors like race and sex, the California Department of Transportation has drawn up a hiring plan that takes race into account in public contracting. (Source) The Federal Highway Administration approved the [...]

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Hannity Covers the New Haven Firefighters Discrimination Case

April 7, 2009

This month the Supreme Court will hear arguments in Ricci v. DeStefano, a case in which over a dozen white firefighters and one Hispanic filed suit against New Haven, Connecticut, in 2004, claiming racial discrimination. The firefighters scored high enough to qualify for a promotion, but the department threw out all test results, because no [...]

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Female Business Owners in Houston to be Treated Equally

April 7, 2009

Women in Houston who own businesses may finally achieve what they’ve always wanted: to be treated equally regardless of sex. We are women, hear us roar! KHOU.com reports that the Houston City Council approved a court settlement that removes female-owned business from the city’s preferences program, which mandates preferential treatment based on factors like race [...]

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Ten Percent Plan Studies Scheduled for Release Next Week

April 7, 2009

The so-called Texas Ten Percent Plan allows high school students graduating in the top 10 percent of their Texas high school class guaranteed admission to public colleges and universities in the state. Last month, the Texas senate voted 24 to 7 to modify the law. The modification would remove the admissions guarantee and cap admissions [...]

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Ward Connerly on In-State Tuition for Illegal Aliens

April 1, 2009

“It is, in effect, inequitable treatment of Americans to give benefits to those who are illegal, over those who are American residents. You know, I don’t know why this is so hard for some to understand,” said the American Civil Rights Institute’s Ward Connerly about California allowing illegal aliens to receive in-state tuition. (Source) In 2001, [...]

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Obama Nominee Suggests Lower Quality Doctors for Minorities

April 1, 2009

President Barack Obama’s nominee for assistant attorney general for civil rights, Tom Perez, believes medical schools should drop standards for black applicants, because he contends they are more likely to work in “underserved” communities than white doctors. Yes, that’s what he said. Linda Chavez of the Center for Equal Opportunity (CEO) tackles the topic of [...]