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President Biden delivers remarks following Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard Andrea Campbell, the attorney general of Massachusetts, reacts to the decision. In a speech, president Joe Biden said, "This is not a normal court" and that the United States needed "a new path forward that is consistent with the law." [72] [73]
A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld a ruling clearing Harvard University of discrimination against Asian American applicants. Appeals court clears Harvard of racial bias in admissions Skip ...
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] Blum is also the founder of Project on Fair Representation, with a goal to end racial classifications in education, voting ...
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 ...
The Education Department is investigating Harvard University's use of legacy admissions following a complaint from advocacy groups alleging that the practice violates federal civil rights law.. In ...
Opening a new front in legal battles over college admissions, the U.S. Department of Education has launched a civil rights investigation into Harvard University's policies on legacy admissions.
The lawsuit against Harvard was heard in Boston federal court in October 2018. On October 1, 2019, Judge Allison D. Burroughs rejected the plaintiffs' claims, ruling that Harvard's admissions practices meet constitutional requirements and do not discriminate against Asian Americans. [ 169 ]
A panel of appeals court judges on Wednesday repeatedly challenged the legal claims of a group that accuses Harvard University of intentional discrimination against Asian American students who ...