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A guide to the amicus briefs in the affirmative-action cases - SCOTUSblog (2022)

Marina Hsieh

Eventually, there were hundreds of "friend of the court" briefs filed in the consoliated cases of SFAA v. Harvard and SFAA v. North Carolina. This article summarizes some of the angles that organizations, individuals, elected officials and governmental entitites, including many "Asian" organizations and Jesuit universities took. Ultimately, Asian Americans and various organizations representing viewpoints of various Asian groups filed many briefs on both sides of the cases. 

[Disclosure: Casebook authors Marina Hsieh and Elizabeth Tanaka were among the 63 individuals and 58 AAPI-affiliated organizations that signed on to the amicus brief of the Asian American Legal Defense & Educational Fund on behalf of Respondents Harvard College and UNC. 

 

A guide to the amicus briefs in the affirmative-action cases - SCOTUSblog (2022)

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