BREAKING: UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital in Oakland reserved its prestigious CHAMPS healthcare internship exclusively for minority students — locking out qualified non-minority applicants based on race. This week, that ended in a settlement, opening the program to everyone. 2/ G.H. is a high schooler who's dreamed of a career in medicine. She met every academic qualification for CHAMPS — a three-year internship where students shadow doctors, earn high school credit, and get college prep support. The only thing standing in her way was her race. 3/ That's a textbook equal protection violation. The Fourteenth Amendment doesn't let a government-run hospital sort students by race when deciding who gets an educational opportunity. Race-based eligibility for a public program isn't a gray area — it's unconstitutional. 4/ We represented Rebecca Hooley and her daughter G.H. at no cost in Hooley v. UC Regents. A government hospital cannot pick winners and losers based on skin color. The settlement now lets all students apply to CHAMPS on equal terms. pacificlegal.org/case/ucsf-mino…