A nonprofit organization has filed a lawsuit against Northwestern University and staff this week alleging its law school’s hiring practices discriminate against white, male applicants, and gives preferential treatment to less-qualified women and minority candidates.
A group of attorneys, including: Jonathan F. Mitchell, of Mitchell Law in Austin, Texas; Judd F. Stone, Christopher D. Hilton and Ari Cuenin, of Stone Hilton; and Gene P. Hamilton of American First Legal Foundation in Washington, D.C., filed the suit on behalf of Faculty, Alumni, and Students Opposed to Racial Preferences (FASORP) in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. A request for comment from Mitchell, the lead attorney for the case, went unanswered.
FASORP is described as an organization formed to “[restore] meritocracy in academia and fighting race and sex preferences that subordinate academic merit to so-called diversity considerations.” FASORP brought the suit against Northwestern University and the law school’s dean, professors, and editors of the Northwestern University Law Review, seeking to enjoin its faculty hiring practices and to “expose” members of the faculty and administration who engage in the process, the complaint said.