Students For Fair Admissions, Ames, And California Employers

Two years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. Harvard, 600 U.S. 181 (2023). Ostensibly, the decision was about collegiate admissions practices. It considered the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964—looking specifically at Harvard and UNC’s affirmative-action programs in admissions. The Court addressed prominent earlier affirmative-action cases, including Regents of Univ. of Cal. v. Bakke (1978) and the Bollinger cases (2003)—effectively upending such admissions programs.

by KEITH W. CARLSON