Boston Parent Coalition for Academic Excellence Corp. v. The School Committee for the City of Boston

Docket number: 23-1137 (U.S.) The Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute filed an amicus brief with the American Civil Rights Project and Manhattan Institute supporting Boston Parent Coalition for Academic Excellence Corp.’s petition for writ of certiorari by the U.S. Supreme Court. The case challenges an admissions process used by three prestigious “exam schools” operated by Boston Public Schools that is transparently and unconstitutionally based on racial proxies, with the goal of achieving…

Local News Matters Bay Area: $43 million Google data privacy class action settlement to go to nonprofit organizations

Local News Matters Bay Area reported on HLLI's objection to In re Google Location History Litigation. He [Ted Frank] argued that judges shouldn’t be diverting money from class members to third parties. He said that under the settlement, class members were giving up their individual claims to fund organizations they had no connection to. The absurdity of that structure, he argued, was that a class member who “opted out” — that…

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