McDonald’s HACER program is discriminatory because it is not open to students of all races, a federal lawsuit alleges.

Group that successfully fought affirmative action in colleges accuses fast-food chain of discrimination against high schoolers.

A group opposed to affirmative action filed a lawsuit accusing McDonald's of not going far enough when it recently rolled back several diversity initiatives.

McDonald’s is being sued over a decades-old college scholarship program for Latino students, just a week after the burger chain said it would roll back a range of diversity initiatives. The lawsuit—the latest in a growing body of cases by various activist groups challenging corporate diversity initiatives—was filed by the American Alliance for Equal Rights.

The lawsuit claims the Chicago-based fast food giant is discriminating against non-Hispanics by not making its HACER scholarship available to everyone.

A group is suing McDonald's over a scholarship program that is only available for Hispanic and Latino students.

Legal group American Alliance for Equal Rights says in the lawsuit that McDonald’s, despite recent changes, continues to employ discriminatory practices through its HACER scholarship program that

The activist behind the U.S. Supreme Court case that largely ended affirmative action in college admissions is now targeting Chicago-based McDonald’s.

McDonald’s finds itself in a legal soup as a group opposing affirmative action challenges the company’s long-standing scholarship program for Hispanic and Latino students. The American Alliance for Equal Rights,