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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 ...
Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College [8] was dismissed in October 2019, [9] and that ruling was subsequently upheld on appeal. [10] In February 2021, however, SFFA petitioned the Supreme Court of the United States to review the case. [11]
Since the 1990s, Blum has been heavily involved in bringing eight cases to the United States Supreme Court. [2] He was a key figure in Bush v. Vera and the Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College lawsuits. Blum is the director of the Project on Fair Representation, which he founded in 2005. [3]
Harvard University on Wednesday lost a bid for an insurer to cover up to $15 million of the costs of defending itself in a lawsuit that led to the U.S. Supreme Court barring it and other colleges ...
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 ...
1946 – Mendez v. Westminster School District; 1967 – Penn/Stump v. City of Oakland; This Consent Decree stated that men and women should be hired by race and gender as police officers in the same percentage that they are represented in the population of the city. This process took more than twenty years to achieve.
DaimlerChrysler Corp. v. Cuno: 2006: Held that state taxpayers do not have standing to challenge to state tax laws in federal court. 9–0 Massachusetts v. EPA: 2007: States have standing to sue the EPA to enforce their views of federal law, in this case, the view that carbon dioxide was an air pollutant under the Clean Air Act. Cited Georgia v.
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."