Straight white woman drops bias case against King & Spalding over its diversity fellowship

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Straight white girl drops bias case in opposition to King & Spalding over its variety fellowship

By Debra Cassens Weiss

November 19, 2025, 12:22 pm CST

A straight white girl who sued King & Spalding over a variety fellowship has filed a joint stipulation dropping her claims, main a federal appeals courtroom to dismiss her enchantment.

The 4th U.S. Circuit Courtroom of Appeals at Richmond, Virginia, dismissed Sarah Spitalnick’s enchantment with prejudice Nov. 14. The stipulation of dismissal, docketed Nov. 13, didn’t point out whether or not a settlement had been reached.

Regulation 360 coated the stipulation, reached earlier than appeals briefs had been filed within the case.

Spitalnick had alleged that she was deterred from making use of for a summer-associate variety fellowship at King & Spalding in February 2021 due to a job advert that restricted candidates.

The advert stated candidates “should have an ethnically or culturally numerous background or be a member of the LGBT neighborhood,” in keeping with the lawsuit, filed in federal courtroom in Maryland.

Spitalnick alleged violations of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Part 1981 of the Civil Rights Act of 1866.

U.S. District Decide James Okay. Bredar of the District of Maryland tossed Spitalnick’s case in February due to a “paucity of allegations” that she was prepared and capable of apply for the fellowship.

The ABA Journal sought remark from Spitalnick’s lawyer, Eden P. Quainton of Quainton Regulation, and one of many attorneys for King & Spalding, Proskauer Rose associate Evandro C. Gigante. Neither instantly responded.

King & Spalding additionally didn’t instantly reply to the Journal’s request for remark.

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