WASHINGTON, Jan 28 (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department said on Wednesday it was joining a lawsuit that alleged use of race as a factor in admissions at the University of California Los Angeles’ David Geffen School of Medicine.
The underlying lawsuit against UCLA was brought by several groups, including Students for Fair Admissions, the Justice Department said in a statement.
The University of California system, of which UCLA is a part, has previously said it stopped using race as a factor in admissions after the practise was banned in the state due to a state law passed in the mid-1990s.
(Reporting by Kanishka Singh and Jasper Ward in Washington, Editing by Franklin Paul)
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