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In a prior blog post<\/a>, we discussed some of the latest legal challenges to the operation and limits of the currently-prevailing affirmative action principles set forth in the 2013 United States Supreme Court case Fisher v. University of Texas<\/em> (Fisher I<\/em>) and its progeny, including a lawsuit filed in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts against Harvard University by the group Students For Fair Admissions (\u201cSFFA\u201d), in which it has been alleged that Harvard unlawfully discriminates against Asian-American applicants for admission. We noted that we expected the Court to issue a decision in that lawsuit after hearing post-trial arguments set for February 2019. Those post-trial arguments were recently heard and have brought the legal issues before the Court into focus.<\/p>\n

As a reminder, Fisher I <\/em>established three controlling principles used to assess the legality of a higher education institution\u2019s race-conscious practices. First, an institution cannot use race as a factor in conferring benefits or opportunities to individual students, unless such practice can withstand \u201cstrict scrutiny,\u201d which is a standard that requires an institution to show that its race-conscious practice\u00a0 is \u201cnarrowly tailored\u201d to achieve a \u201ccompelling interest.\u201d<\/p>\n

Second, while achieving the educational benefits that flow from student body diversity can constitute a compelling interest, an institution cannot impose a \u201cfixed [racial] quota\u201d or otherwise define \u201cdiversity\u201d as some specified percentage of a particular group merely because of its race or ethnic origin.<\/p>\n

And third, in order to establish that its practice is \u201cnarrowly tailored,\u201d the institution must demonstrate that any \u201cavailable\u201d and \u201cworkable\u201d race-neutral alternatives would not be able to sufficiently promote its interest in educational diversity.<\/p>\n

A subsequent 2016 United States Supreme Court case, also captioned as Fisher v. University of Texas<\/em> (Fisher II<\/em>), affirmed that institutions may use race as one \u201cplus factor\u201d among others in admissions, so long as none of the three above principles are violated.<\/p>\n

The crux of SFFA\u2019s argument in the Harvard admissions case\u2014which SFFA reasserted in the recent post-trial session\u2014is that Harvard has gone beyond using race as simply one \u201cplus factor\u201d among many, and instead has used its race-conscious admissions program to engage in unlawful discrimination against Asian-American applicants, as allegedly evidenced by such applicants being assigned lower \u201cpersonal ratings\u201d compared to other racial and ethnic groups. Harvard, on the other hand, has denied that its race-conscious admissions program has violated the principles set forth in Fisher I<\/em> and Fisher II<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The parties\u2019 post-trial arguments touched on several sub-issues that have arisen within the context of this broad disagreement. Harvard, for example, not only disputed the propriety of the statistics used by SFFA to allegedly demonstrate the existence of an \u201cAsian penalty\u201d in the admissions process, but also raised issue with the fact that during the trial, SFFA failed to produce as a witness a single Asian-American applicant who claims to have been subjected to unlawful discrimination.<\/p>\n

SFFA, in response, argued that the statistics and evidence of admissions practices it put forward are sufficient to prove its case, and that it is not required to produce an individual \u201cvictim.\u201d The parties additionally expressed opposing views about the legal standard the Court should use to decide the case. Harvard argued that SFFA bears the burden of proving intentional discrimination and conscious \u201cracial animus\u201d in order to prevail on its claim, and that SFFA failed to meet its burden of proof. SFFA, in contrast, argued that it has produced evidence sufficient to demonstrate a pattern of discrimination, and that Harvard<\/em> bears the burden of proving that it did not<\/em> unlawfully discriminate.<\/p>\n

These issues will be addressed by the Court\u00a0 in its forthcoming opinion, which we expect will be published sometime within the next few months. However, that will likely not be the end of the story. It is widely expected that the case will be appealed regardless of which party prevails at the trial court level, and it is not beyond the realm of possibility that the case will reach the Supreme Court, where the principles set forth in Fisher<\/em> I <\/em>and its progeny may be modified or even overruled.<\/p>\n

Client Tip: For the time being, race-conscious practices and policies of higher education institutions remain subject to the general <\/em>Fisher principles described above. Stay tuned for any relevant updates.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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