The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, et al., Amici Curiae
Robert E. Toone, Counsel of Record
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund is national organization that protects and promotes the civil rights of Asian-Americans. It is joined in this brief by 18 Asian-American and Pacific Islander education and youth-serving organizations and 52 higher education faculty and officials. Robert E. Toone is a partner with the law firm Foley Hoag, where he specializes in commercial and financial litigation. The following is excerpted from the Amicus Curiae Brief for Respondent as submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on August 13, 2012. The admission of students with a “broad array of qualifications and characteristics” advances the…
