Los Angeles Times A federal lawsuit accuses the University of California of illegally considering race when accepting new students, alleging that the system’s long-term growth of Black and Latino enrollment would not be possible under a state law prohibiting the use of race in admissions and a Supreme Court ruling

A federal lawsuit accuses the University of California of illegally considering race when accepting new students, alleging that the system’s long-term growth of Black and Latino enrollment would not be possible under a state law prohibiting the use of race in admissions and a Supreme Court ruling that struck down affirmative action.

A lawsuit filed this week accuses the University of California of racial discrimination in undergraduate admissions by favoring Black and Latino students over Asian American and white applicants. A group called Students Against Racial Discrimination sued Monday in federal court,

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