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STUDENTS FOR FAIR ADMISSIONS, INC. v. HARVARD CORP.

No. 15-1823.

807 F.3d 472 (2015)

STUDENTS FOR FAIR ADMISSIONS, INC., Plaintiff, Appellee, v. PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE (Harvard Corporation), Defendant, Appellee; Sarah Cole; Fadhal Moore; Arjini Kumari Nawal; Itzel Vasquez-Rodriguez; Keyanna Wigglesworth; M.B.; K.C.; Y.D.; G.E.; A.G.; I.G.; R.H.; J.L.; R.S., Movants, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

December 9, 2015.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Taylor Owings , with whom Lawrence E. Culleen , Nancy L. Perkins , Steven L. Mayer , Arnold & Porter, LLP, Jon M. Greenbaum , Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Iván Espinoza-Madrigal , and Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Economic Justice, were on brief, for movants-appellants.

Seth P. Waxman , with whom Felicia H. Ellsworth , Eric F. Fletcher , Paul R.Q. Wolfson , Daniel Winik , and Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, were on brief, for defendant-appellee.

Patrick Strawbridge , with whom Consovoy McCarthy Park PLLC, Paul M. Sanford , and Burns & Levinson LLP, were on brief, for plaintiff-appellee.

Before HOWARD, Chief Judge, LYNCH and KAYATTA, Circuit Judges.

This appeal arises out of a lawsuit brought by an organization that calls itself Students For Fair Admissions, Inc. ("SFFA") challenging Harvard College's consideration of race in its undergraduate admissions decisions. An opposing group of current and prospective Harvard students...

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