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[27] [28] Blum participated in cases such as Bush v. Vera, Shelby County v. Holder, and Fisher v. University of Texas. [27] The SFFA case was the first high-profile case on behalf of plaintiffs who were not white, and who had academic credentials that, according to Vox, were "much harder to criticize." The lawyers for SFFA stated that the ...
[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 ...
“In this case, SFFA has challenged any consideration of race by the Naval Academy in its admissions process,” U.S. Senior District Judge Richard Bennett wrote in his 175-page ruling.
Last year, in Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) v. Harvard, the Supreme Court effectively banned the use of race as a factor in college admissions. Since then, it’s been unclear what the ...
With abortion and guns already on the agenda, the conservative-dominated Supreme Court is considering adding a third blockbuster issue — whether to ban consideration of race in college admissions.
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 ...
A U.S. district judge sided with Harvard at the conclusion of a case in which a group of Asian-Americans asserted the school discriminated against them. Judge upholds Harvard's admission process ...
The lede reads, "In 2013, Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) filed suit against Harvard University in U.S. District Court in Boston ..." But, under District Court Case, "SFFA filed a lawsuit in federal district court against Harvard University on November 17, 2014."