Several AAU members were part of a group of 26 colleges and universities joined an amicus brief to support the complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The amici include Boston University, Brandeis University, Brown University, Columbia University, Dartmouth College, Emory University, Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, New York University, The Pennsylvania State University, Princeton University, Rutgers University, the University of Chicago, the University of Pennsylvania, and Yale University.