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A civil rights organization has filed a complaint alleging that the University of California, Irvine (UCI) is using racial quotas in its engineering school by setting goals to have the number of Black faculty, students and staff "match or exceed" the Black population in California.

The Equal Protection Project (EPP), founded by Cornell Law School Professor William Jacobson, claims the Samueli School of Engineering is engaging in unlawful race-based practices that violate federal civil rights law and the U.S. Constitution .

"These racial minimum quota goals are particularly troubling since UC Irvine already is under investigation by the Department of Justice for use of racial quotas in employment and admissions," Jacobson

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