Supreme Court to Hear Case on the Continuation of Affirmative Action in College Admissions

On January 24, 2022, the United States Supreme Court (the “Supreme Court” or the “Court”) granted certiorari in the Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President & Fellows of Harvard College (“SFFA v. Harvard”) case. The Court consolidated SFFA v. Harvard with SFFA v. University of North Carolina (“UNC”) because both lawsuits are being brought by the SFFA and seek to reverse the Court’s 2003 decision in Grutter v. Bollinger, 539 U.S. 306 (2003), upholding narrowly tailored, race-conscious measures to promote diverse student bodies in colleges and universities. The Court has extended the briefing schedule, and merits briefing will be completed this summer, with oral argument early in the October 2022 Term. To learn more about what this may mean going forward, please visit Husch Blackwell's K-12 Legal Insights blog: https://bit.ly/3J3wjZd

Schools that value diverse enrollments may need to rethink their admissions practices and the various competing priorities they serve.

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