Students for Fair Admissions - Affirmative action Challenges

 21-707 STUDENTS FOR FAIR ADMISSIONS V. UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA DECISION BELOW: 1:14CV954 CONSOLIDATED WITH 20-1199 FOR ONE HOUR ORAL ARGUMENT. ORDER OF JULY 22, 2022: THIS CASE IS NO LONGER CONSOLIDATED WITH NO. 20-1199, STUDENTS FOR FAIR ADMISSIONS v. PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD, AND ONE HOUR IS ALLOTTED FOR ORAL ARGUMENT. CERT. GRANTED 1/24/2022 

ARGUMENT SET FOR Monday, October 31, 2022.

QUESTION PRESENTED: 

1.         Should this Court overrule Grutter v. Bollinger, 539 U.S. 306 (2003), and hold that institutions of higher education cannot use race as a factor in admissions? 

2.         Can a university reject a race-neutral alternative because it would change the composition of the student body, without proving that the alternative would cause a dramatic sacrifice in academic quality or the educational benefits of overall student-body diversity?

Reply brief for Petitioner SFFA

 

20-1199 STUDENTS FOR FAIR ADMISSIONS V. PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OFHARVARD COLLEGE 

Decision

DECISION BELOW: 980 F.3d 157 CONSOLIDATED WITH 21-707 FOR ONE HOUR ORAL ARGUMENT. ORDER OF JULY 22, 2022: JUSTICE JACKSON TOOK NO PART IN THE CONSIDERATION OF THIS ORDER. CERT. GRANTED 1/24/2022 

QUESTION PRESENTED: 

1. Should this Court overrule Grutter v. Bollinger, 539 U.S. 306 (2003), and hold that institutions of higher education cannot use race as a factor in admissions? 

2. Title VI of the Civil Rights Act bans race-based admissions that, if done by a public university, would violate the Equal Protection Clause. Gratz v. Bollinger, 539 U.S. 244, 276 n.23 (2003). Is Harvard violating Title VI by penalizing Asian-American applicants, engaging in racial balancing, overemphasizing race, and rejecting workable race-neutral alternatives?

Reply Brief of Students for Fair Admissions

AMICI (selected - in support of respondents)

Brief of the American Bar Association

Brief of Asian American Legal Defense Fund

Brief of Catholic Colleges and Universities [Georgetown, Catholic U, Boston College, Holy Cross, DePaul, Fordham , Marquette, Notre Dame, Villanova and 48 other Catholic colleges and universities]

Brief of HBCU Leaders, et al.

Brief of Major American Business Enterprises

Brief of NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund

Brief of Professors of History and Law

Brief of National Education Association and Service Employees International Union

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