Case Status: Loss. Petition for Writ of Certiorari denied on June 29, 2000.
Boulahanis v. Board of Regents, Illinois State University
CIR challenged the elimination of Illinois State men's athletic teams to achieve identical rates of participation and spending on men's and women's teams, regardless of interest levels...
Case Status: Loss. N.Y. Court of Appeals upheld lower court dismissal of case.
Maas v. Cornell University
CIR contested, on contractual and other grounds, a private university's sanctions against a senior professor over ill-founded sexual harassment charges...
Case Status: Victory
Rosenberger v. University of Virginia
In 1995, CIR fought and won a case before the Supreme Court that affirmed that government cannot exclude faith-based student organizations from programs because of their religious viewpoint...
Case Status: Loss
Gee v. Humphries
CIR challenged a state college's suspension and termination of Gerald Gee, a white professor who was said to have "harassed" students at historically black Florida A&M University...
Case Status: Victory, later modified in Grutter v. Bollinger
Hopwood v. Texas
CIR won a historic victory in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals case Hopwood v. Texas. The Fifth Circuit ruling barred all use of racial preferences in university admissions in the states under that court’s…
Case Status: Victory
Silva v. University of New Hampshire
CIR's 1994 victory against the University of New Hampshire was the first successful case against university speech codes and an affirmation of First Amendment rights in the classroom...
Case Status: Victory. U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit affirmed district court order granting summary judgment.
White v. Lee
In 1993, CIR challenged the use of federal housing discrimination law to suppress opposition to public housing projects...
Case Status: Victory before D.C. Circuit, case settled on remand.
Lamprecht v. Federal Communications Commission
One of the Center for Individual Rights' first clients was Thomas Lamprecht, a 28-year-old radio broadcaster whose application for a license had been denied by the FCC because he was a man...