Ohio Supreme Court Rejects Deference; ED’s Fulbright-Hays Discriminatory “Native Language Penalty”

Ohio Supreme Court Rejects Deference to Agency Interpretations

The Supreme Court of Ohio, in a 4-3 opinion, denounced agency deference and ruled that the state’s courts need not defer to agency interpretations of ambiguous statutes. NCLA filed an amicus brief in TWISM Enterprises, LLC v. State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Surveyors, urging the Supreme Court of Ohio to declare agency deference unconstitutional.

Vec touts the Ohio Supreme Court doing away with state deference.

Dept. of Education’s Fulbright-Hays Application Includes Discriminatory “Native Language Penalty”

Undermining the spirit of international openness and exchange, the U.S. Department of Education’s application process for the Fulbright-Hays Fellowship significantly disadvantages immigrants from non-English-speaking countries and children of such immigrants. NCLA has filed a Motion for Preliminary Injunction in the lawsuit, Edgar Ulloa Lujan, Samar Ahmad, and Veronica Gonzalez v. U.S. Department of Education, et al., asking the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas to require the Department of Education to reevaluate Plaintiff Veronica Gonzalez’s 2022 application for the Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship without applying a “native language penalty.”

Vec explains NCLA’s preliminary injunction motion to stop the Dept. of Education from discriminating on the basis of country of origin in Fulbright scholarships.