Anti-Affirmative Action Group Drops Its Lawsuit Challenging Yale University’s Race-Conscious Admissions Policies

Students for Fair Admissions dropped its lawsuit challenging Yale University’s race-conscious admissions policies after the Supreme Court gutted the practice in June.

The anti-affirmative action group and the Ivy League school voluntarily agreed to drop the case after Yale agreed to make several updates to its admissions process ahead of the fall 2023 undergraduate admissions season.

SFFA filed its challenge in February 2021, but the lawsuit was paused as the Supreme Court weighed the group’s challenges against Harvard University and the University of North Carolina. In a ruling divided along ideological lines, the high court’s six-justice conservative majority found that the universities discriminated against white and Asian American applicants by using race-conscious policies that benefited applicants from underrepresented backgrounds.

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