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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]
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.
[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 ...
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 ...
The Supreme Court is set to soon deliver rulings on affirmative action in two separate cases, Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina and Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard .
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 ...
70 per cent of the college’s donor-related and legacy applicants are white, reporting finds
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.