| No. 20-1199 | |
| Title: | Students for Fair Admissions, Inc., Petitioner v. President and Fellows of Harvard College |
| Docketed: | March 1, 2021 |
| Lower Ct: | United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit |
| Case Numbers: | (19-2005) |
| Decision Date: | November 12, 2020 |
| Date | Proceedings and Orders |
| Feb 25 2021 | Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due March 31, 2021) |
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| Mar 03 2021 | Motion to extend the time to file a response from March 31, 2021 to May 17, 2021, submitted to The Clerk. |
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| Mar 04 2021 | Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including May 17, 2021. |
| Mar 23 2021 | Brief amici curiae of Gail Heriot and Peter N. Kirsanow filed. |
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| Mar 25 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of Southeastern Legal Foundation filed. |
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| Mar 25 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of Professor David E. Bernstein filed. |
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| Mar 26 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of Economists in Support of Petitioner filed. |
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| Mar 29 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of National Association of Scholars filed. |
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| Mar 30 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of Speech First filed. |
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| Mar 30 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of The State of Texas filed. |
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| Mar 30 2021 | Brief amici curiae of Pacific Legal Foundation, Reason Foundation, Center for Equal Opportunity, Individual Rights Foundation, Chinese American Citizens Alliance - Greater New York, Coalition for TJ, and Yi Fang Chen filed. |
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| Mar 31 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of Jewish Coalition for Religious Liberty filed. |
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| Mar 31 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute filed. |
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| Mar 31 2021 | Brief amici curiae of The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and the Silicon Valley Chinese Association Foundation filed. |
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| Mar 31 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence filed. |
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| Mar 31 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of Former Attorney General Edwin Meese III filed. |
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| Mar 31 2021 | Brief amici curiae of State of Oklahoma filed. |
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| Mar 31 2021 | Brief amici curiae of Judicial Watch, Inc. and Allied Educational Foundation filed. |
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| Mar 31 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of Richard Sander in support of neither filed. |
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| Mar 31 2021 | Brief amici curiae of The Asian American Coalition For Education and The Asian American Legal Foundation filed. |
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| Mar 31 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of The Californians for Equal Rights Foundation filed. |
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| Mar 31 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of Former Federal Officials of the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights filed. |
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| Mar 31 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of The Liberty Justice Center filed. |
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| May 17 2021 | Brief of respondent President and Fellows of Harvard College in opposition filed. |
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| May 19 2021 | Letter waiving the 14-day waiting period for the filing of a reply pursuant to Rule 15.5 filed. |
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| May 24 2021 | Reply of petitioner Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. filed. (Distributed) |
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| May 25 2021 | DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/10/2021. |
| Jun 14 2021 | The Acting Solicitor General is invited to file a brief in this case expressing the views of the United States. |
| Dec 08 2021 | Amicus brief of United States not accepted for filing. (December 09, 2021 - to be corrected and reprinted) |
| Dec 08 2021 | Brief amicus curiae of United States filed. |
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| Dec 21 2021 | Supplemental brief of respondent President and Fellows of Harvard College filed. (Distributed) |
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| Dec 22 2021 | DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/7/2022. |
| Dec 22 2021 | Supplemental brief of petitioner Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. filed. (Distributed) |
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| Jan 10 2022 | DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/14/2022. |
| NAME | ADDRESS | PHONE |
| Attorneys for Petitioner | ||
| William Spencer Consovoy Counsel of Record | Consovoy McCarthy PLLC 1600 Wilson Boulevard Suite 700 Arlington, VA 22209 will@consovoymccarthy.com | (703) 243-9423 |
| Party name: Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. | ||
| Attorneys for Respondent | ||
| Seth P. Waxman Counsel of Record | Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP 1875 Pennsylvania Ave, NW Washington, DC 20006 Seth.Waxman@wilmerhale.com | 202-663-6800 |
| Party name: President and Fellows of Harvard College | ||
| Other | ||
| Elizabeth B. Prelogar Counsel of Record | Solicitor General United States Department of Justice 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20530-0001 SupremeCtBriefs@USDOJ.gov | 202-514-2217 |
| Party name: United States | ||
| Bradley Alan Benbrook Counsel of Record | Benbrook Law Group 400 Capitol Mall, Suite 2530 Sacramento, CA 95814 brad@benbrooklawgroup.com | 9164474900 |
| Party name: Speech First | ||
| John J. Bursch Counsel of Record | Alliance Defending Freedom 440 First Street, NW Suite 600 Washington, DC 20001 jbursch@adflegal.org | (616) 450-4235 |
| Party name: Jewish Coalition for Religious Liberty | ||
| Anthony Thomas Caso Counsel of Record | Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence Claremont Institute 1317 W. Foothill Blvd., Ste 120 Upland, CA 91786 tcaso@claremont.org | 877-855-3330 |
| Party name: Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence | ||
| H. Christopher Coates Counsel of Record | Law Office of H. Christopher Coates 934 Compass Point Charleston, SC 29412 curriecoates@gmail.com | (843) 609-7080 |
| Party name: Judicial Watch, Inc. and Allied Educational Foundation | ||
| Wencong Fa Counsel of Record | Pacific Legal Foundation 930 G Street Sacramento, CA 95814 wfa@pacificlegal.org | 9164197111 |
| Party name: Pacific Legal Foundation, Reason Foundation, Center for Equal Opportunity, Individual Rights Foundation, Chinese American Citizens Alliance - Greater New York, Coalition for TJ, and Yi Fang Chen | ||
| Gordon M. Fauth Jr. Counsel of Record | Litigation Law Group 1935 Addison St., Ste. A Berkeley, CA 94704 gmf@classlitigation.com | 5102389610 |
| Party name: The Asian American Coalition For Education and The Asian American Legal Foundation | ||
| Theodore Harold Frank Counsel of Record | Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute 1629 K Street NW, Suite 300 Washington, DC 20006 tfrank@gmail.com | 7032033848 |
| Party name: Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute | ||
| C. Boyden Gray Counsel of Record | Boyden Gray and Associates PLLC 801 17th Street, NW Suite 350 Washington, DC 20006 info@boydengrayassociates.com | 202-955-0620 |
| Party name: Economists in Support of Petitioner | ||
| Kimberly Stewart Hermann Counsel of Record | Southeastern Legal Foundation 560 W. Crossville Rd. Suite 104 Roswell, GA 30075-7509 khermann@southeasternlegal.org | 770-977-2131 |
| Party name: Southeastern Legal Foundation | ||
| Peter Nicholas Kirsanow Counsel of Record | Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff LLP 200 Public Square, Suite 2300 Cleveland, OH 44114 pkirsanow@beneschlaw.com | 2163634500 |
| Party name: Gail Heriot and Peter N. Kirsanow | ||
| Cory Ren Liu Counsel of Record | Ashcroft Law Firm LLC 919 Congress Ave. Ste. 1325 Austin, TX 78701 cliu@ashcroftlawfirm.com | 512-370-1800 |
| Party name: Professor David E. Bernstein | ||
| Mithun Mansinghani Counsel of Record | Solicitor General Office of the Oklahoma Attorney General 313 NE 21st Street Oklahoma City, OK 73105 mithun.mansinghani@oag.ok.gov | 405-522-4392 |
| Party name: State of Oklahoma | ||
| Daniel Isaac Morenoff Counsel of Record | The Equal Voting Rights Institute d/b/a The American Civil Rights Project P.O. Box 12207 Dallas, TX 75225 dan@americancivilrightsproject.org | (214) 504-1835 |
| Party name: The Californians for Equal Rights Foundation | ||
| Dennis J. Saffran Counsel of Record | Dennis Saffran, Attorney at Law 38-18 West Drive Douglaston, NY 11363 djsaffranlaw@gmail.com | (718) 428-7156 |
| Party name: National Association of Scholars | ||
| Judd Edward Stone II Counsel of Record | Texas Attorney General's Office P.O. Box 12548 (MC 059) Austin, TX 78711-2548 judd.stone@oag.texas.gov | 512-936-1700 |
| Party name: The State of Texas | ||
| Daniel Robert Suhr Counsel of Record | Liberty Justice Center 190 LaSalle Street Suite 1500 Chicago, IL 60603 dsuhr@libertyjusticecenter.org | 3122637668 |
| Party name: The Liberty Justice Center | ||
| Stuart S. Taylor Jr. Counsel of Record | Self-employed 3911 Jocelyn St. NW Washington, DC 20015 stuarttaylorjr@gmail.com | 202-365-1812 |
| Party name: Richard Sander | ||
| William E. Trachman Counsel of Record | Mountain States Legal Foundation 2596 South Lewis Way Lakewood, CO 80227 wtrachman@mslegal.org | 3032922021 |
| Party name: Former Federal Officials of the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights | ||
| Jonathan Andrew Vogel Counsel of Record | Vogel Law Firm PLLC 6000 Fairview Road South Park Towers, Suite 1200 Charlotte, NC 28210 jonathan.vogel@vogelpllc.com | 704-552-3750 |
| Party name: The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and the Silicon Valley Chinese Association Foundation | ||
| Edward Mark Wenger Counsel of Record | 119 South Monroe Street Suite 300 Tallahassee, FL 32301 edw@hgslaw.com | 850-425-2352 |
| Party name: Former Attorney General Edwin Meese III | ||