The Rooney Rule has been in place for more than two decades, but a Yale Law paper co-authored by DeMaurice Smith argues it's merely been a suggestion.

But the Flores suit called the Rooney Rule a failure, so we decided to go back to one of the key people involved in the creation of it to get his take. That's civil rights lawyer Cyrus Mehri, ...

“The Rooney Rule is also not working because management is not doing the interviews in good-faith, and it therefore creates a stigma that interviews of Black candidates are only being done to ...

DEI’s ‘Rooney Rule’ placed under legal microscope, on and off the field. Stephen Miller’s America First Legal files an EEOC complaint against the NFL, adding to the wave of challenges ...

The Rooney Rule officially went into effect for the 2003 season, roughly a year after Dungy and Green's firings. At the time it was implemented, Dungy and Edwards were the only minority coaches in ...

The NFL has used the so-called “Rooney Rule” since 2003. It’s under renewed scrutiny because ex-Miami Dolphins coach Brian Flores expressed skepticism about its effectiveness in the lawsuit ...

No matter, though. The Jaguars had complied with the Rooney Rule as of Thursday night and were free to make Coen their next coach. This does not make Shad Khan -- a Pakistani American who is the ...

Without enforcement, the Rooney Rule failed to create equitable opportunities for Black coaches. Then it spread to corporate America and fell short there, too. Warning: This graphic requires ...

Mehri cowrote the Rooney Rule with civil rights lawyer Johnnie L. Cochran Jr., along with major input from Wooten. Despite its flaws, the Rooney Rule is working, said Wooten, 88, a college Hall of ...

The Rooney Rule has been in place since 2003, yet there seems to still be a lot of confusion surrounding it and the NFL diversity policy as a whole.

Ryan Clark, a one-time Super Bowl champion and current ESPN NFL analyst, ripped the New England Patriots for how they complied with the Rooney Rule during their head-coaching search. The NFL’s ...

The Rooney Rule, developed by the NFL in 2003, is a policy aimed at increasing diversity among NFL coaches and employees, originally requiring every team with a head coaching vacancy to interview ...