STUDENTS FOR FAIR ADMISSIONS, INC., Petitioner v. PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE; STUDENTS FOR FAIR ADMISSIONS, INC., Petitioner v. UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA, ET AL., 600 U.S. 181

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HOLDINGS: [1]-An organization had standing in cases challenging two universities’ use of race in their admissions programs because the organization had identified members and represented them in good faith, and it satisfied the U.S. Const. art. III test for organizational standing; [2]-The universities’ admission programs could not be reconciled with the guarantees of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment as both programs lacked sufficiently focused and measurable objectives warranting the use of race, unavoidably employed race in a negative manner, involved racial stereotyping, and lacked meaningful end points.