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Civil Rights

Jul. 24, 2025

Is kindness illegal?

America First Legal claims the Dodgers' DEI efforts are "patently illegal" under Title VII -- but is lifting up marginalized groups really the same as unlawful discrimination?

Sidney Kanazawa

Mediator/Arbitrator, Attorney
ARC (Alternative Resolution Centers)

Email: skanazawa@arc4adr.com

USC Gould School of Law

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Is kindness illegal?
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In a letter dated June 30, 2025, America First Legal Foundation, describing itself as "a national, nonprofit organization working to protect the rule of law, due process, and equal protection for all Americans," complained to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball organization's (Los Angeles Dodgers, LLC) and its ow...

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