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Both petitions sought the court to overturn Grutter v. Bollinger. In Harvard, SFFA asked if Harvard's admission practices were in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act given possible race-neutral selection processes, while in North Carolina, they asked if a university can reject a race-neutral admission process if they believe they need ...
[1] [2] In June 2023, the Supreme Court ruled in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard that affirmative action programs in college admissions (excepting military academies) are unconstitutional. SFFA has been described by its opponents as an anti-affirmative action group that objects to the use of race as one of the factors in college ...
Last year, in Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) v.Harvard, the Supreme Court effectively banned the use of race as a factor in college admissions.Since then, it’s been unclear what the fallout ...
Harvard Law School is reporting its lowest Black student enrollment since the 1960s just one year after the Supreme Court’s decision to end race-conscious college admissions. Only 19 first-year ...
On June 29, the Supreme Court handed down a seminal decision on the role of race in our society: Students for Fair Admissions Inc. (SFFA) v. President and Fellows of Harvard College.
Salemme and Weadick were sentenced to life in prison in September 2018. In October 2018, Burroughs held a three-week bench trial in SFFA v. Harvard, a lawsuit challenging Harvard's admissions program as discriminatory against Asian Americans. [8] A decision in favor of the university was announced on October 1, 2019. [9] United States v.
The court’s ruling also applies to Harvard University’s race-conscious admissions policy, which had been the subject of a separate, but similar, lawsuit filed by SFFA on the same day in 2014 ...
SFFA filed a petition to the U.S. Supreme Court on Nov. 11, 2021, asking the court to hear the UNC case alongside the group’s case against Harvard University. SFFA’s case against Harvard had ...