Associations lack standing to sue Harvard Law Review
The Faculty, Alumni and Students Opposed to Racial Preferences and the Coalition for Meritocracy at Universities, two unincorporated nonprofit associations organized in Texas with no direct connection with Harvard University, have no standing to sue Harvard and the Harvard Law Review for allegedly discriminatory practices in selecting students to run the prestigious publication. A federal District Court in Massachusetts has dismissed the claims both for lack of standing and for failure to state a claim. The plaintiffs “seek to restore meritocracy at American universities by eliminating the use of race and sex preferences.” They charged that the Law Review adopted a race-based affirmative...
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