Harvard students wrote an amicus brief the state supreme court cited

Evidence

You stood in solidarity with me; you voted to condemn the university because of its unethical stewardship. Above and beyond this, you used your extraordinary talents to pen an amicus brief that was cited by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. — Tamara Lanier, From These Roots, 1390

To Meredith McKinney, Jarrett M. Drake, and the entire Harvard student body, you are amazing, and I extend my deepest gratitude to you for your courageous support and unrelenting pursuit of institutional accountability. You stood in solidarity with me; you voted to condemn the university because of its unethical stewardship. Above and beyond this, you used your extraordinary talents to pen an amicus brief that was cited by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. — Tamara Lanier, From These Roots, 1390

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: what exactly did the student amicus brief argue, and what did the Massachusetts SJC hold in citing it?
• SEED: Material for an essay angle on student-led institutional accountability campaigns succeeding through formal legal instruments.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Tamara Lanier, From These Roots: My Fight with Harvard…, 1390
• XREF: connects to: Amicus briefs serve strategic, ideological, and signaling purposes beyond litigant support — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 935