by Press | Jul 16, 2024 | Press Releases
WASHINGTON—A federal court dismissed SFFA v. UT-Austin, a lawsuit initiated in 2019 by Edward Blum and his anti-civil rights group Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA). The case initially challenged the University of Texas at Austin’s (UT-Austin)...
by Press | Jun 29, 2024 | Press Releases
WASHINGTON—June 29th marks one year since the U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision in SFFA v. Harvard/ UNC-Chapel Hill undermining the use of race in college admissions. The Lawyers’ Committee litigated both cases from the beginning and argued the UNC case before the...
by Press | Nov 9, 2020 | Press Releases
(Charlotte, N.C.) – The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law presented opening statements today in SFFA v. UNC, a federal lawsuit challenging the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s limited consideration of race in admissions to promote...
by Press | May 18, 2020 | Press Releases
(Boston, Mass.) – A diverse group of Harvard students and alumni of color (student-amici) dismissed the intentions and likely harmful outcomes of the legal appeal filed by plaintiffs in the Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) v. Harvard case today when they submitted...
