Supreme Court that New Haven, Connecticut has discriminated white firefighters when it refused to promote them after they passed a test that most African American co-employees failed. It said that the city should not have thrown out the test results just because it feared the test had a ...
The court's decision to hear the appeal from a group of Black voters and the state marks at least the third time it will step into the legal battle over voting lines for Louisiana's U.S. House districts that were drawn after the 2020 Census. The justices will hear arguments next year,...
A divided Supreme Court has struck down affirmative action in college admissions, declaring race cannot be a factor and forcing institutions of higher education to look for new ways to achieve diverse student bodies.
But Roberts wrote that universities can still consider "an applicant's discussion of how race affected his or her life, be it through discrimination, inspiration, or otherwise." Military academies are effectively exempt from the decision, due to the "potentially distinct interests" th...
the Supreme Court has power (superseding that of all other courts) to examine federal and state statutes and executive actions to determine whether they conform to the U.S. Constitution. When the court rules against the constitutionality of a statute or an executive action, its decision can be...
However, the “court leaves a considerable gray area when it comes to understanding race in the context of a student’s life,” Meyer says. “They note applicants might reference race in their essays and colleges could consider students experience of discrimination in their holistic revie...
“The whole point of the majority opinion is that impermissible discrimination occurs whenever you take race into account in making a decision,” Tushnet said. A claim of intentional discrimination, he added, was not necessary for the Court to find Harvard’s race-conscious admissions policies unc...
The decision has implications for the future standard to be used when alleging and defending against reverse discrimination employment claims. This matter is still developing and will be updated as more information becomes available.
The US Supreme Court issued a landmark decision on June 29, 2023 regarding challenges to race-conscious admissions programs at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina (UNC). In a 6–3 decision split along ideological lines (the vote was 6
The court’s decision will force colleges across the country to change their admission policies,including private universities in Californiathat are free to consider race in admissions. Berkeleyside is republishing this EdSource story that first appeared in October 20...