in law podcast. and joyce, it's great to have you here. this case against harvard legacy also saying that most of these legacy students if you will, or families, are white. >> right. so this is a great strategic move by the lawyers in boston who chose to file this action as a complaint with the department of education. there's a 2001 supreme court case that calls the private right of action or individuals like these groups of students to directly sue harvard and other universities under title six of the civil rights act but the department of education can bring that lawsuit unlike the supreme court case on affirmative action which was a charge of intentional discrimination, this complaint say there's disparate impact. in other words that when college use legacy status to make add miss decisions, it has a
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