A federal court approved Northwestern’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit Wednesday that alleged the Pritzker School of Law’s faculty hiring processes discriminate against white male candidates.
Filed Feb. 1, the case was the second lawsuit Faculty, Alumni, and Students Opposed to Racial Preferences had filed against the University and Pritzker administrators over its hiring practices.
The conservative activist group first sued in July 2024 and voluntarily dismissed the case on Jan. 31, 2025 — only for the group to file a similar lawsuit the next day.
The lawsuit named several white men who were once candidates for faculty positions and not hired by the law school. The group used the men to allege the Pritzker faculty hiring process prioritized women and minorities over white men who have what they consider to be “better credentials,” according to the complaint they filed in February.
NU filed the motion to dismiss the lawsuit in April on the grounds that the conservative activist group that brought the case lacked legal standing.
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