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Harvard filed an opposing brief seeking to have SFFA's petition rejected by the Supreme Court. [48] [49] In June 2021 the Court requested that the U.S. government submit a brief of its stance on the case, [50] and in December the Solicitor General of the United States under the Biden administration urged the Supreme Court to reject the appeal. [51]
The university requested that the U.S. Supreme Court stay the order requiring Bakke's admission pending its filing of a petition asking for a review. U.S. Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist, as circuit justice for the Ninth Circuit (California is within the Ninth Circuit) granted the stay for the court in November 1976. [52] [53]
FILE - Activists demonstrate as the Supreme Court hears oral arguments on a pair of cases that could decide the future of affirmative action in college admissions, in Washington, Oct. 31, 2022.
The Supreme Court decided two cases brought by Students for Fair Admissions, a group headed by Edward Blum, a conservative legal strategist who has spent years fighting affirmative action.
The Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments Monday on two cases related to the consideration of race in college admissions. Arguments in the first case, Students for Fair Admissions v. University ...
Grutter v. Bollinger, 539 U.S. 306 (2003), was a landmark case of the Supreme Court of the United States concerning affirmative action in student admissions.The Court held that a student admissions process that favors "underrepresented minority groups" did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause so long as it took into account other factors evaluated on an individual ...
Those preferences, known as legacy admissions, have come under growing attack following the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling last June striking down race-based affirmative action in cases involving ...
All lawyer admissions are done through recommendations of the State Bar, which then must be ratified by the Supreme Court, and attorney discipline is delegated to the State Bar Court of California (although suspensions longer than three years must be independently decided upon by the Court). California's bar is the largest in the U.S. with ...