Six right-leaning nonprofits — including a group that has recently sued several prominent law firms over their diversity-boosting programs — filed briefs last week calling on the 2nd Circuit to reconsider its decision that organizations must name their affected members in lawsuits seeking to block alleged discrimination. Ed Blum’s American Alliance for Equal Rights, the Manhattan Institute, Speech First and other conservative groups told the appeals court that its new rule, adopted last month in a lawsuit challenging a Pfizer diversity fellowship, will chill civil rights litigation because plaintiffs fear harassment and retaliation if their identities are revealed. Alison Frankel unpacks the groups’ brief.
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