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Fisher v. University of Texas, 570 U.S. 297 (2013), also known as Fisher I (to distinguish it from the 2016 case), [1] is a United States Supreme Court case concerning the affirmative action admissions policy of the University of Texas at Austin.
Fisher v. University of Texas (alternatively called Fisher I), 570 U.S. 297 (2013), a case which ruled that strict scrutiny should be applied to determine the constitutionality of a race-sensitive admissions policy. Fisher v. University of Texas (alternatively called Fisher II), 579 U.S. 365 (2016), a case which ruled that the University of ...
Case history; Prior: See Fisher v. University of Texas: Holding; The race-conscious admissions program in use at the time of petitioner's application is lawful under the Equal Protection Clause. The judgement of the Fifth Circuit is affirmed. Court membership; Chief Justice John Roberts Associate Justices Anthony Kennedy · Clarence Thomas
In October 2012, he unsuccessfully represented the University of Texas at Austin in Fisher v. University of Texas, a high-profile constitutional challenge to its admissions policy in which the Supreme Court issued a 7–1 decision to vacate a lower court's decision which was in favour of the university. [17]
In 2009, Sparks heard Fisher v. University of Texas, a case challenging the admissions policy of the University of Texas at Austin. He upheld UT's policy under Grutter v. Bollinger. [13] In 2012 the court commemorated his 20 years served on the federal bench and marked the occasion with a portrait painted by artist Michele Rushworth.
Texas (5th Cir. 1996) that the University of Texas School of Law could not use race as a factor in admissions. This was the first successful legal challenge to racial preferences since Bakke . Two cases in 2003 involving the University of Michigan found that the university's policy of granting extra points to minorities for undergraduate ...
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U.S. Supreme Court cases in which CAC has filed amici curiae briefs include: Citizens United v. FEC (campaign finance, 2010) CAC filed a brief explaining that the text and history of the Constitution make clear that campaign expenditures by corporations can be subject to greater regulation than expenditures by individuals. Fisher v.