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DIVERSITY EQUITY AND INCLUSION PROGRAMS IN LIGHT OF THE SUPREME COURT’S AFFIRMATIVE ACTION OPINION

Litigation By Binnall Law Group - 2024/01/29 at 05:19pm

 By: Ben North It is now common knowledge that on June 29, 2023, the Supreme Court outlawed affirmative action in college admissions, insofar as it held that race preferencing for the purposes of increasing “diversity” violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and Title VI of the Civil Right Act. Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President & Fellows of Harvard Coll., 143 S. Ct. 2141 (2023). The Court ruled that colleges and universities could not sufficiently justify preferencing certain races over others, by any interest in increasing the “diversity” of the student body or by remedying generalized […]

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