Jerry LambeFeb 3rd, 2021, 3:57 pm
Continuing the trend set by President
Joe Biden’s flurry of executive orders aimed at reversing his predecessor’s executive policies and mandates, the Department of Justice (DOJ) dropped a Trump-era lawsuit accusing Yale University of unlawfully discriminating on the basis of race in its admissions process.
Attorneys representing the DOJ Civil Rights Division told the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut on Wednesday that the department was dropping the case via a two-sentence Notice of Voluntary Dismissal.
The lawsuit which alleged that Yale violated the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by discriminating against “racially-disfavored applicants, including in particular most Asian and White applicants” stood as a paragon of the Trump administration’s efforts to combat affirmative action programs.
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