Plaintiff challenged Defendants' race-neutral admissions policy at high schools Boston Latin School, the Boston Latin Academy, and the John D. O’Bryant School of Mathematics and Science (collectively referred to as "Boston Exam Schools"), arguing that it discriminated against white and Asian applicants.

A new admissions policy was adopted for Boston Exam Schools for the 2021-2022 school year, allocating a portion of seats to each Boston zip code based on the percentage of school-aged children living there. Students within each zip code then competed for those seats based on their pre-pandemic GPA.

After the district court ruled that Defendants' admissions policy was permissible and did not discriminate against white and Asian applicants, Plaintiff appealed and asked the Court of Appeals for an emergency injunction to block the policy while the case was being litigated. On April 28, 2021, the Court of Appeals denied the request, finding that Plaintiff was unlikely to win the case, that delaying the admissions program would disrupt thousands of families, and that Plaintiff’s delay in filing the case contributed to any harm they claimed would result from not granting the injunction.

On April 28, 2021, the case was paused in the Court of Appeals so the district court could decide whether new evidence warranted overturning its earlier decision in favor of Defendant. After reviewing the evidence, the district court upheld its ruling, and the case returned to the Court of Appeals.

On December 19, 2023, the Court of Appeals affirmed the district court's decision, finding that Plaintiff failed to show the policy disproportionately harmed white and Asian students. While the plan slightly reduced their admissions numbers, white and Asian students remained significantly overrepresented compared to their share of the eligible school-age population.