The Trump administration formally accused Harvard on Monday of violating federal civil rights law by failing to protect Jewish and Israeli students from harassment, citing a series of antisemitic ...

The path to lawsuits of this kind is through one of the country’s oldest and most important civil rights laws, the Civil Rights Act of 1871, referred to in its modern codification as Section 1983.

Congress could, in theory, do something. A trio of Democrats last year reintroduced the Bivens Act, which would insert federal officials acting under color of law into the Civil Rights Act of 1871.

The Civil Rights Act of 1871 [which enacted §1983 among other landmark provisions] was an exercise in grand am­bition. It had to be.

Congress acted similarly under President Ulysses S. Grant, suspending habeas corpus in parts of South Carolina under the Civil Rights Act of 1871.

On July 2, 1964, the U.S. Civil Rights Act of 1964 became law with the signature of President Lyndon B. Johnson.

A Trump administration investigation has found Harvard University in “violent violation” of the Civil Rights Act, once more escalating its battle with the school days after President Donald ...

House Republican Leadership Chairwoman Elise Stefanik is criticizing Columbia University’s president over past comments that the congresswoman said are a potential violation of the Civil Rights ...

Trump administration finds Harvard in 'violent violation' of Civil Rights Act, threatens funding loss The administration detailed the results of the probe in a letter on Monday.

On Monday, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) determined that Harvard University violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by showing ...

PORTSMOUTH — A Rockingham County judge has ruled none of the three Goodwins violated the state Civil Rights Act in the November 2023 downtown assault of a Black bank executive, rejecting the New ...