Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College

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United States Supreme Court case affirmative action case landmark civil rights case

Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College is a landmark 2023 U.S. Supreme Court case that sharply limited the use of race-conscious admissions policies in higher education, effectively ending affirmative action programs at colleges and universities nationwide.

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All labels observed (6)

Label	Occurrences
Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College canonical	2
SFFA v. Harvard	1
Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina	1
Students for Fair Admissions, Inc.	1
Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College	1
Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. University of North Carolina	1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	United States Supreme Court case ⓘ affirmative action case ⓘ landmark civil rights case ⓘ
alsoDecidedWith	Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. University of North Carolina
appealsCourt	United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit ⓘ
citation	600 U.S. ___ (2023) ⓘ
constitutionalProvisionInterpreted	Equal Protection Clause ⓘ surface form: Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
court	Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ
decisionDate	2023-06-29 ⓘ
dissentingJustices	Elena Kagan ⓘ Ketanji Brown Jackson ⓘ Sonia Sotomayor ⓘ
dissentingOpinionBy	Sonia Sotomayor ⓘ
docketNumber	20-1199 ⓘ
fullName	Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College
holding	Colleges and universities may not use race as a factor in admissions in the manner previously permitted under Grutter v. Bollinger ⓘ Harvard’s race-conscious admissions program violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment as applied through Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ⓘ
impact	effectively ended race-conscious affirmative action programs at most U.S. colleges and universities ⓘ required institutions receiving federal funds to adopt race-neutral admissions policies ⓘ
legalIssue	constitutionality of race-conscious college admissions ⓘ use of race as a factor in higher-education admissions ⓘ
limitedPrecedent	Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin ⓘ Regents of the University of California v. Bakke ⓘ
locationOfRespondent	Cambridge, Massachusetts ⓘ
majorityJustices	Amy Coney Barrett ⓘ Brett M. Kavanaugh ⓘ Clarence Thomas ⓘ John G. Roberts Jr. ⓘ surface form: John G. Roberts, Jr. Neil M. Gorsuch ⓘ Samuel A. Alito Jr. ⓘ surface form: Samuel A. Alito, Jr.
majorityOpinionBy	John G. Roberts Jr. ⓘ surface form: John G. Roberts, Jr.
originatingCourt	United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts ⓘ
overruledPrecedent	Grutter v. Bollinger ⓘ
partyTypePetitioner	nonprofit organization ⓘ
partyTypeRespondent	private university ⓘ
petitioner	Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Students for Fair Admissions, Inc.
respondent	Harvard Corporation ⓘ surface form: President and Fellows of Harvard College
separateOpinionBy	Clarence Thomas ⓘ Neil M. Gorsuch ⓘ
shortName	Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: SFFA v. Harvard
statuteInterpreted	Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ⓘ
subjectMatter	civil rights law ⓘ education law ⓘ
term	October Term 2022 ⓘ
topic	affirmative action in higher education ⓘ college and university admissions ⓘ
yearDecided	2023 ⓘ

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Instruction

You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.

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Subject: Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College
Description of subject: Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College is a landmark 2023 U.S. Supreme Court case that sharply limited the use of race-conscious admissions policies in higher education, effectively ending affirmative action programs at colleges and universities nationwide.

Referenced by (7)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Grutter v. Bollinger → laterOverruledInPartBy → Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College ⓘ

this entity surface form: Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina

United States Supreme Court cases → hasPart → Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College ⓘ

Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College → fullName → Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College

Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College → shortName → Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: SFFA v. Harvard

Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College → petitioner → Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Students for Fair Admissions, Inc.

Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College → alsoDecidedWith → Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. University of North Carolina