⚖ Oral Arguments, with Context

The Seventh Circuit hears a challenge to an Illinois law requiring large grantmaking nonprofits to survey leaders about demographics and post aggregate results online for three years. The law covers nonprofits reporting at least one million dollars in annual grants and asks about race, gender, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, and other categories; each person may decline. American Alliance for Equal Rights sued before enforcement for two unnamed nonprofits. It says the requirements compel speech and pressure nonprofits to select leaders by race. The United States joined with an Equal Protection claim; Illinois calls the law a neutral transparency measure. The district court allowed standing only for the Alliance's objection to asking the questions. It rejected the Alliance's other standing theories, dismissed the United States' complaint, denied the Alliance's injunction request, and treated the government's request as moot. The appeals ask whether each plaintiff has standing—a concrete stake in the dispute—and which rulings the Seventh Circuit can review now.

American Alliance for Equal Rights v. State of Illinois (No. 25-2461) — U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, argued September 11, 2026.