Harvard Defeats Suit Seeking to Bar Race-Conscious Admission
Posted on AllSides October 1st, 2019
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Harvard University defeated an anti-affirmative action group’s lawsuit to stop the school from using race as a factor in admissions, in a ruling that’s likely to be challenged all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that the nation’s oldest college doesn’t discriminate against Asian-Americans, as the suit claimed, and that its consideration of race as one criterion among many in its admissions decisions is lawful. The suit, brought in 2014 by Students for Fair Admissions, claimed that Harvard illicitly engaged in “racial balancing”...
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