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The complaints at the Department of Education were dismissed in July 2015 because a lawsuit making similar allegations had already been filed by Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) in November 2014. [31] However, in 2017, the coalition resubmitted their complaints to the Department of Justice under the Trump administration. It opened an ...
Students for Fair Admissions, founded by affirmative action opponent Edward Blum, filed a federal lawsuit against the Annapolis, Maryland-based Navy school weeks after it launched a similar case ...
A crux of SFFA’s argument against UNC was an allegation that the university gave underrepresented minority students an advantage in the admissions process, while hindering “high-achieving ...
Students For Fair Admissions (SFFA) claimed West Point violated the Fifth Amendment by using race-concious admissions West Point sued by anti-affirmative action group for considering race in ...
Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) is a nonprofit legal advocacy organization founded in 2014 by conservative activist Edward Blum for the purpose of challenging affirmative action admissions policies at schools. [1] [2] In June 2023, the Supreme Court ruled in Students for Fair Admissions v.
Faculty and students protested. For the next several years, the case was a popular topic of discussion and debate in The Daily Texan, the University's student newspaper. The Texas legislature passed the Top Ten Percent Rule governing admissions into public colleges in the state, partly in order to mitigate some of the effects of the Hopwood ...
In the months leading up to the filing of the lawsuit, SFFA sought plaintiffs for the case through a website, uncnotfair.org, that said rejected applicants to UNC may have been denied admission ...
In 2019, the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts ruled in Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College, a lawsuit alleging discrimination in admission against Asian Americans by the college, that Harvard's system, while imperfect, nonetheless passed constitutional muster. [50] [51]