thing every year so sometimes you get lucky, sometimes you don t. coming up, we ll have the latest weather forecast with what you you can expect today during your celebrations. we re going to start with two u.s. cities responding to a series of mass shootings last night that left a combined eight people dead in fort worth, texas then in philadelphia. in fort worth, three are dead and more than a dozen injured after two separate shootings. while in philadelphia, a gunman wearing a bulletproof vest and armed with an ar type rifle killed five people and injured two. a toddler and a 13-year-old boy. at least one man is now in custody and officials there are set to give a press conference at the top of the next hour. we ll cover that for you live. in a statement, president biden responded to the violence writing quote, today, jill and i grieve for those who have lost their lives and as our nation celebrates independence day, we pray for the day when our communities will be fre
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