In a widely expected ruling, the Supreme Court decided to strike down the use of affirmative action in college admissions, one of the blockbuster decisions of this term.
But the implications of the decision in the high court’s rulings in Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina and Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard may have wider and lasting impacts on corporate diversity initiatives, including those impacting commercial real estate.
The rulings were 6-3 and 6-2, with Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, a Harvard graduate, recusing herself from the Harvard case.
“Eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote…