by Press | Feb 3, 2021 | Press Releases
(Washington, D.C.) – The Department of Justice announced today that it will be dropping its lawsuit against Yale University, which had alleged the university was discriminating against white and certain Asian American applicants in its admissions process. The...
by Press | Jan 15, 2021 | Press Releases
The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, along with pro bono counsel Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP and Bernabei & Kabat PLLC, have received an order from a federal district court, to intervene in SFFA v. UT Austin on behalf of three organizations and a...
by Press | Jan 11, 2021 | Press Releases
(Washington, D.C.) – To ensure that students who are learning the English language are not forced into schools for the sole purpose of testing their proficiency, and that parents be provided an option in their native language, and to withdraw from testing if...
by Press | Dec 17, 2020 | Press Releases
(Austin, Texas) – To defend the limited, but meaningful inclusion of race in the University of Texas at Austin’s admissions process, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, along with pro bono counsel Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP and Bernabei &...
by Press | Nov 12, 2020 | Press Releases
(Cambridge, Mass.) – The U.S. Circuit Court for the First Circuit in Massachusetts ruled in a 2-0 decision today in SFFA v. Harvard that Harvard University’s race-conscious admissions policy must be upheld. The court found that Harvard’s policy is consistent...
