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Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard

Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard

Court case
Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, 600 U.S. 181, is a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in which the court held that race-based affirmative action programs in college admissions processes violate the Equal... Wikipedia
Date decided: 2023
Decision: Opinion
Date argued: November 17, 2014
Argument: Oral argument
Citations: 600 U.S. 181 (more)
Dissent: Sotomayor, joined by Kagan

People also ask
Jun 29, 2023 · Petitioner, Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA), is a nonprofit or- ganization whose stated purpose is “to defend human and civil rights ...
The Harvard admissions program violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Chief Justice John Roberts authored the 6-3 majority opinion.
Holding: The admissions programs at Harvard College and the University of North Carolina violate the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.
In 2019 a district court judge upheld Harvard's limited use of race as a factor in admissions, stating lack of evidence for 'discriminatory animus' or ' ...
The Supreme Court has twice cited Harvard's admission process as a model for how other colleges and universities can consider race consistent with the law and ...
Dec 12, 2023 · In June 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down race-based affirmative action in college admissions. The landmark ruling in Students for ...
Feb 27, 2023 · This lawsuit contends that the consideration of race as an affirmative action measure in admissions at Harvard and at UNC constitutes racial ...
Jun 29, 2023 · In SFFA v. Harvard and SFFA v. UNC, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down affirmative action policies at Harvard and University of North ...
Aug 14, 2023 · See Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard. College, No. 20-1199; Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v.
Two lawsuits filed by a group misleadingly named Students for Fair Admissions (“SFFA”) are challenging the right of universities to consider race as one of many ...