Below please find links to the amicus briefs filed to the U.S. Supreme Court in Fisher II. The briefs are listed in alphabetical order by their official names.

Fisher II



Amicus Brief of IDRA in Support of Respondents 

Amicus Brief of National Women’s Law Center, Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders, and Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc. et al. Supporting Respondents

Amicus Brief of the American Center for Law and Justice in Support of Petitioner

Amicus Curiae Brief of Mountain States Legal Foundation in Support of Petitioner

Amicus Curiae Brief Of The Center For Individual Rights In Support Of Petitioner

Brief Amici Curiae of 39 Undergraduate and Graduate Student Organizations Within the University of California in Support of Respondents

Brief Amici Curiae of 53 Current Members of the Texas State Senate and House of Representatives in Support of Respondents

Brief Amicus Curiae for Richard Lempert in Support of Respondents

Brief Amicus Curiae for Richard Sander in Support of Neither Party

Brief Amicus Curiae of Anti-Defamation League in Support of Respondents

Brief Amicus Curiae of Gail Heriot and Peter N. Kirsanow, Members of the United States Commission on Civil Rights in Support of Petitioner

Brief Amicus Curiae of Jonathan Zell in Support of Petitioner

Brief Amicus Curiae of Kimberly West-Faulcon in Support of Respondents

Brief Amicus Curiae of Pacific Legal Foundation, Center for Equal Opportunity, American Civil Rights Institute, Project 21, and the National Association of Scholars in Support of Petitioner

Brief Amicus Curiae of the American Civil Liberties Union in Support of Respondents

Brief Amicus Curiae of the National Education Association, et al., in Support of Respondents

Brief for Amici Curiae Association of American Medical Colleges et al. in Support of Respondents

Brief for Amici Curiae Current and Former Student Body Presidents of University of Texas at Austin in Support of Respondents

Brief for Amici Curiae National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Texas State Conference of the NAACP in Support of Respondents

Brief for Amicus Curiae Association of American Law Schools in Support of Respondents

Brief for Amicus Curiae Harvard University in Support of Respondents

Brief for Society of American Law Teachers as Amicus Curiae Supporting Respondents

Brief for the Cato Institute as Amicus Curiae in Support of Petitioner

Brief for The Civil Rights Clinic and The Education Rights Center at Howard University School of Law as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondents

Brief for the New York Law School Racial Justice Project as Amicus Curiae in Support of Respondents

Brief for the New York State Bar Association as Amicus Curiae in Support of Respondents

Brief for the State of California as Amicus Curiae in Support of Respondents

Brief for the United States as Amicus Curiae Supporting Respondents

Brief for the University of Michigan as Amicus Curiae in Support of Respondents

Brief of 823 Social Scientists as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondents

Brief of Amherst, Allegheny, Barnard, Bates, Bowdoin, Bryn Mawr, Carleton, Colby, Connecticut, Davidson, Dickinson, Franklin & Marshall, Grinnell, Hamilton, Hampshire, Haverford, Lafayette, Macalester, Middlebury, Mount Holyoke, Oberlin, Pomona, Reed, Sarah Lawrence, Simmons, Smith, St. Olaf, Swarthmore, Trinity, Union, Vassar, Wellesley, And Williams Colleges, and Bucknell, Colgate, Tufts, Washington & Lee, and Wesleyan Universities, Amici Curiae, Supporting Respondents

Brief of Amici Curiae American Council on Education and 37 Other Higher Education Organizations in Support of Respondents

Brief of Amici Curiae Boston Bar Association et al. in Support of Respondents

Brief of Amici Curiae Cecilia Polanco, Star Wingate-Bey, Itzel Libertad Vasquez-Rodriguez, R.J., A.J., G.E., I.G., M.B., K.C., Y.D., and R.H. in Support of Respondents

Brief of Amici Curiae Coalition of Bar Associations of Color (National Bar Association, Hispanic National Bar Association, National Asian Pacific American Bar Association, and National Native American Bar Association) in Support of Respondents

Brief of Amici Curiae Human Rights Advocates, et al., in Support of Respondents

Brief of Amici Curiae Judicial Watch, Inc. and Allied Educational Foundation in Support of Petitioner

Brief of Amici Curiae Members of Asian Americans Advancing Justice et al., in Support of Respondents

Brief of Amici Curiae Nationwide Coalition of Educators and Centers Working to Expand Educational Opportunity for African American Males in Support of Respondents

Brief of Amici Curiae Professors Cedric Merlin Powell, Samuel A. Marcosson, Goldburn P. Maynard, Jr., Laura Rene McNeal, and Enid F. Trucios-Haynes of the University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law, and Louisville Metro Human Relations Commission-Advocacy Board in Support of Respondents

Brief of Amici Curiae Religious Organizations and Campus Ministries including The National Council Of The Churches Of Christ in the U.S.A., American Baptist Churches in the U.S.A., The Samuel Dewitt Proctor Conference, The United Church of Christ, The Progressive National Baptist Convention, The American Baptist Home Mission Society, The African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church (U.S.A.), and The African American Ministers Leadership Council in Support of Respondent

Brief of Amici Curiae The American Jewish Committee, Union For Reform Judaism, Central Conference of American Rabbis, and Women of Reform Judaism in Support of Respondents

Brief of Amici Curiae The Asian American Legal Foundation and The Asian American Coalition for Education (Representing 117 Affiliated Asian American Organizations) in Support of Petitioner

Brief of Amici Curiae the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and the Southern Poverty Law Center, et al., in Support of Respondents

Brief of Amici Curiae United Negro College Fund and National Urban League in Support of Respondents

Brief of Amicus Curiae California Association of Scholars in Support of Petitioner

Brief of Amicus Curiae David Boyle in Support of Respondents

Brief of Amicus Curiae Indiana Tech Law School Amicus Project in Support of Petitioner

Brief of Amicus Curiae Professor W. Burlette Carter in Support of Respondents

Brief of Amicus Curiae Southeastern Legal Foundation Supporting Petitioner

Brief of Amicus Curiae the American Psychological Association in Support of Respondents

Brief of Amicus Curiae the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in Support of Respondents

Brief of Brown University, University of Chicago, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Duke University, Johns Hopkins University, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, University Of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, Stanford University, Vanderbilt University, and Yale University in Support of Respondents

Brief of California Institute of Technology, Carnegie Mellon University, Case Western Reserve University, Emory University, George Washington University, Northwestern University, Rice University, Tulane University, University Of Rochester and Washington University in St. Louis as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondents

Brief of Constitutional Law Scholars and Constitutional Accountability Center as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondents

Brief of David Orentlicher as Amicus Curiae Supporting Neither Party

Brief of Dean Robert Post and Dean Martha Minow as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondents

Brief of DuPont, IBM, Intel, and the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering in Support of Respondents

Brief of Empirical Scholars as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondents

Brief of Experimental Psychologists as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondents

Brief of Fortune-100 and Other Leading American Businesses as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondents

Brief of James F. Blumstein, as Amicus Curiae in Support of Petitioner

Brief of Leading Public Research Universities The University Of Delaware, Indiana University, The University Of Kansas, The University Of Minnesota, The University Of Nebraska-Lincoln, The Pennsylvania State University, Purdue University, and Rutgers, The State University Of New Jersey, as Amici Curiae In Support Of Respondents

Brief of Legal Scholars Defending Diversity in Higher Education as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondents

Brief of Lt. Gen. Julius W. Becton, Jr., Gen. John P. Abizaid, Adm. Dennis C. Blair, Gen. Bryan Doug Brown, Gen. George W. Casey, Lt. Gen. Daniel W. Christman, Gen. Wesley K. Clark, Adm. Archie Clemins, Gen. Ann E. Dunwoody, Gen. Ronald R. Fogleman, Adm. Edmund P. Giambastiani, Jr., et al., as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondents

Brief of Massachusetts, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Mississippi, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondents

Brief of National and Texas Latino Organizations as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondents

Brief of National Association of Basketball Coaches, Women’s Basketball Coaches Association, The National Association for Coaching Equity and Development, Geno Auriemma, Jim Boeheim, John Chaney, Jody Conradt, Tom Izzo, Mike Krzyzewski, Joanne P. Mccallie, George Raveling, Nolan Richardson, Sue Semrau, Orlando “Tubby” Smith, John R. Thompson, Jr., Tara Vanderveer, Dick Vitale, Coquese Washington, and Gary Williams as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondents

Brief of Richard D. Kahlenberg as Amicus Curiae in Support of Neither Party

Brief of Ruben Hinojosa, Member of Congress; Robert C. “Bobby” Scott, Member of Congress; And 83 Other Members of Congress, as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondents

Brief of Six Educational Nonprofit Organizations as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondents

Brief of Social and Organizational Psychologists as Amici Curiae Supporting Respondents

Brief of Students from the New York University School of Law Seminar on Critical Narratives in Civil Rights as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondents

Brief of Teach for America, Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity Inc., The Calhoun School, City and Country School and K-12 Educators Eve Kleger, Michèle Solá, Jane Moulding, Patricia Hayot, Erica Corbin, Diana Schlesinger, Cara Surico, Scott Reisinger, Namita Tolia, Arvind Grover, Sam Chaltain, Morika Tsujimura and Jennifer Chen as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondents

Brief of the American Association for Access, Equity, and Diversity and Eight Other Organizations as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondents

Brief of the American Bar Association as Amicus Curiae in Support of Respondents and Urging Affirmance

Brief of the American Educational Research Association et al. as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondents

Brief of the Asian American Legal Defense And Education Fund, Asian/Asian American Faculty And Staff Association of the University Of Texas at Austin, Asian Desi Pacific Islander American Collective of the University Of Texas at Austin, Other Asian American and Pacific Islander Education and Youth-Serving Organizations, and Higher Education Officials as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondents

Brief of the Black Student Alliance at the University of Texas at Austin, the Black Ex-Students Of Texas, Inc., and the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondents

Brief of the College Board, AACRAO, NACAC, and LSAC Amici Curiae, Supporting Respondents

Brief of the Family of Heman Sweatt as Amicus Curiae in Support of Respondents

Brief of the Judicial Education Project as Amicus Curiae in Support of Petitioner

Brief of the National School Boards Association, Texas Association of School Boards Legal Assistance Fund, American Association of School Administrators, American School Counselors Association, Association of School Business Officials International, National Association of Secondary School Principals, and PDK International as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondents

Brief of the President and the Chancellors of the University of California as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondents

Brief of U.S. Senators Harry Reid, Richard Blumenthal, Corey Booker, Barbara Boxer, Christopher A. Coons, Richard J. Durbin, Dianne Feinstein, Al Franken, Barbara A. Mikulski, and Patty Murray as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondents