Ward Connerly Group Dismisses Bias Suit After Settlement With LAUSD

Metropolitan News-Enterprise
Thursday, August 26, 2010
By a MetNews Staff Writer

An organization led by anti-affirmative action activist—and former University of California regent—Ward Connerly said yesterday it had dismissed a lawsuit charging the Los Angeles Unified School District with illegally assigning teachers to schools on the basis of race.
The Pacific Legal Foundation, which represented Connerly’s American Civil Rights Foundation—said it dismissed the action after concluding a settlement with LAUSD.
“Using race to assign teachers to schools teaches the wrong lesson—that people are defined by their race,” PLF attorney Joshua P. Thompson said.

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Backers of California's Preference Ban Seek a Role in Its Legal Defense

The Chronicle of Higher Education
June 17, 2010, 03:14 PM ET

Several prominent supporters of California's Proposition 209, which barred public colleges from considering applicants' race and ethnicity, are seeking a role in defending the measure from a lawsuit challenging it as unconstitutional. Their motion to intervene as defendants in the case argues that the defendants now named in the lawsuit—Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the University of California's Board of Regents—cannot be counted on to put up a strong fight on behalf of the preference ban, which the state's voters passed in 1996. The intervention motion was filed by Ward Connerly, a former University of California regent who helped lead the campaign for Proposition 209; the American Civil Rights Foundation, which Mr. Connerly established; and the California affiliate of the National Association of Scholars. The Pacific Legal Foundation is representing them.

http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Backers-of-Californias/24880/?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en

Group: Omaha rules violate affirmative-action ban

Nebraska TV

Associated Press - March 12, 2009 2:35 PM ET

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - A legal group is calling for Omaha to repeal rules that give preference to minority and female contractors, saying the rules violate Nebraska's affirmative-action ban.
The California-based Pacific Legal Foundation sent a letter to city officials on Wednesday.
It says Omaha's contracting ordinance lets female- and minority-owned businesses submit bids 30 days before other businesses. It also requires 10% of the city's contracting dollars to be awarded to female- and minority-owned businesses.

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