Med School Lawsuit

From the LA Times: A federal class-action lawsuit accuses UCLA’s medical school and various university officials of using race as a factor in admissions, despite a state law and Supreme Court ruling striking down affirmative action.

The lawsuit, filed Thursday in California’s Central District federal court, was brought by the activist group Do No Harm, founded in 2022 to fight affirmative action in medicine; Students for Fair Admissions, the nonprofit that won its suit at the Supreme Court against Harvard’s affirmative action program; and Kelly Mahoney, a college graduate who was rejected from UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine...

Citing unnamed “whistleblowers,” the lawsuit alleges that Jennifer Lucero, the associate dean for admissions, “requires applicants to submit responses that are intended to allow the Committee to glean the applicant’s race, which the medical school later confirms via interviews.” ...Lucero did not immediately respond to an emailed request to comment...

Full story at https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-05-08/federal-lawsuit-alleges-ucla-medical-school-uses-racial-preferences-admissions.

The actual lawsuit is at:

https://ia600402.us.archive.org/9/items/2-final-hjaa-report.-the-soil-beneath-the-encampments/UCLA%20Med%20School%20Complaint%20SFFA%205-8-25.pdf.