APPLY FOR IT IF YOU WANT TO SUE OVER IT: Straight, White Female Loses Bias Claim Over King & Spalding’s Summer Associate Diversity Program. “The plaintiff, Sarah Spitalnick, said she didn’t apply for the position while she was a 1L at the University of Baltimore School of Law because she thought that it would have been a futile gesture. The February 2021 job ad that she saw for the program said candidates ‘must have an ethnically or culturally diverse background or be a member of the LGBT community.'”

In talking about standing in Constitutional Law and Administrative Law, I tell my students to dot every i and cross every t even when it comes to clearly futile administrative gestures, as it makes it harder for courts to get rid of a case they don’t want to hear.