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[27] [28] Blum participated in cases such as Bush v. Vera, Shelby County v. Holder, and Fisher v. University of Texas. [27] The SFFA case was the first high-profile case on behalf of plaintiffs who were not white, and who had academic credentials that, according to Vox, were "much harder to criticize." The lawyers for SFFA stated that the ...
A U.S. district judge sided with Harvard at the conclusion of a high-profile court case in which a group of Asian-Americans asserted that the school's admissions department discriminated against them.
Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College [8] was dismissed in October 2019, [9] and that ruling was subsequently upheld on appeal. [10] In February 2021, however, SFFA petitioned the Supreme Court of the United States to review the case. [11]
Since the 1990s, Blum has been heavily involved in bringing eight cases to the United States Supreme Court. [2] He was a key figure in Bush v. Vera and the Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College lawsuits. Blum is the director of the Project on Fair Representation, which he founded in 2005. [3]
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Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) filed a lawsuit Tuesday alleging the academy was violating the Fifth Amendment in using race as a factor in its admission process. … Air Force Academy facing ...
Adarand Constructors, Inc. v. Peña, 515 U.S. 200 (1995), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case which held that racial classifications, imposed by the federal government, must be analyzed under a standard of "strict scrutiny", the most stringent level of review which requires that racial classifications be narrowly tailored to further compelling governmental interests. [1]
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