ASU professor takes DEI fight to Arizona Supreme Court
Philosophy professor Owen Anderson wants the Arizona Supreme Court to let him sue Arizona State University over mandatory DEI training he says violates a state law barring judgment based on race, ethnicity, or sex. A lower court found the statute gives him no standing, since enforcement power rests only with regulators or the attorney general.
His attorney argued that leaving enforcement solely to the Board of Regents — the same body accused of violating the law — asks the fox to guard the henhouse, and pushed for an implied right to sue. The state countered that the Legislature deliberately included private-suit language in other statutes and left it out of this one, so courts shouldn't read one in.
The board maintains its training doesn't blame or judge anyone, which is a curious thing to insist about training a professor says gave him psychological distress over his own demographic characteristics.
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