FKSA attorneys successfully defended Columbia University against a putative class action lawsuit brought by two individuals, including a self-proclaimed "anti-feminist," in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiffs had alleged that the University violated the constitutional and statutory rights of men by teaching women's studies courses but offering no comparable "men's studies" curriculum. The plaintiffs also had sued the federal and New York State governments alleging that, by providing financial aid to Columbia students, the government defendants violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment by helping to establish the "religion" of feminism.

Magistrate Judge Kevin Nathaniel Fox issued a Report and Recommendation on April 15, 2009 in which he recommended that the defendants' motions to dismiss be granted. Judge Fox found that the plaintiffs lacked standing to sue because they suffered no "injury in fact" due to the existence of Columbia's Women's Studies program or the absence of a men's studies program. On April 23, 2009, District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan adopted the Report and Recommendation. In his opinion, Judge Kaplan rejected the Establishment Clause claims as "absurd and utterly without merit," finding that "[f]eminism is no more a religion than physics, and at least the core of the complaint therefore is frivolous."

FKSA attorneys Robert D. Kaplan, Daniel B. Rapport, and Jennifer P. Krakowsky represented defendant Columbia University.