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Back in February, Harvard filed a friend-of-the-court brief supporting the general principles of affirmative action and diversity in the two cases against the University of Michigan. Six other top universities joined in that brief, which was authored in part by Tyler Professor of Constitutional Law Laurence H. Tribe...
Tribe hailed the Court’s Monday ruling as a success for those who had filed the amicus brief...
...Connor, who was widely considered the swing vote on Monday’s cases, also cited the example of the U.S. military. A friend-of-the-court brief filed by high-ranking members of the armed forces said their ranks had reaped advantages from diversity after putting race-conscious policies in place...
...It’s probably the case that the appropriate weight to give to race will vary from situation to situation,” he said. “The important thing is the principle and that’s what we focused our brief...
Mirkin, who also plans to attend Harvard next fall, had entered into the legal fray with a brief in support of the side of the school system. Although the federal judge already issued her opinion in the matter of who should be valedictorian, the suit remains in litigation...