U.S. District Decide Robert Pitman has rejected claims by College students for Truthful Admissions that the College of Texas at Austin continued to unlawfully think about race when admitting college students after the U.S. Supreme Court docket’s 6-3 ruling in College students for Truthful Admissions Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard Faculty.
College students for Truthful Admissions v. College of Texas at Austin was filed within the U.S. District Court docket for the Western District of Texas in 2020, amid comparable challenges to race-conscious admissions insurance policies embody the so-called Harvard affirmative motion case.
College students for Truthful Admissions alleged the college improperly thought of race in admissions and discriminated towards white candidates in violation of the U.S. Structure’s 14th Modification and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Pitman dismissed this newest lawsuit on July 15, describing the Supreme Court docket’s resolution as a “watershed” ruling that “upended longstanding affirmative motion precedent. The federal decide mentioned the College of Texas at Austin overhauled its admissions coverage to adjust to the excessive court docket’s ruling by ceasing the consideration of race or ethnicity as an element within the admissions course of starting in fall 2023.