September 25, 2026
As the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to kick off a new term, the justices have several pending petitions in their queue that raise hot-button antidiscrimination law issues, including whether mandatory diversity training can sustain a lawsuit and if a decades-old, burden-shifting test should stay on the books. Here are 10 bids for review attorneys might want to keep an eye on.
September 23, 2026
Two certiorari petitions that the U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to consider Monday call for the demise of a decades-old framework for evaluating workplace discrimination cases, and experts say the requests to do away with the legal standard may be increasingly compelling as resistance to the doctrine grows.