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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 ...
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.
In SFFA, Richard Kahlenberg—an expert witness on behalf of the folks challenging racial preferences—proposed a plan for Harvard that would have totally revamped the school’s selection ...
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.
In a 6 -3 decision, the Supreme Court ruled higher education institutions may not consider race as a factor in admissions Supreme Court strikes down affirmative action, banning colleges from ...
In September 2023, SFFA filed a lawsuit challenging the use of race and ethnicity as admissions factors at the United States Military Academy, as the Supreme Court exempted military academies from its ruling in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard. In February 2024 the organization was blocked from appealing a decision to the Supreme Court ...
When the Supreme Court rules on a case involving UNC-Chapel Hill this summer, it will be one of a handful of decisions the court has made on affirmative action.