Biden administration drops Trump-era discrimination lawsuit against Yale

Lawsuit had claimed university discriminates against Asian American and white applicants

The Biden administration announced on Wednesday it had dropped a discrimination lawsuit against Yale University, which alleged that the institution was illegally discriminating against Asian American and white applicants.

While a judge must still sign off on the decision, justice department officials noted in the two-sentence filing in the US district court in Connecticut that it would voluntarily dismiss the action that had been filed by Donald Trump's administration in October.