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In September 2011, lawyers representing Fisher filed petition seeking review from the Supreme Court. [13] [17] On February 21, 2012, the court granted certiorari in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin. The Supreme Court heard the oral argument in October 2012, and handed down its decision on June 24, 2013.
In September 2011, lawyers representing Fisher filed petition seeking review from the Supreme Court. [ 10 ] [ 15 ] The plaintiff's legal team was assembled by the Project on Fair Representation, a Washington, D.C. –based legal defense fund active in attempts to overturn race-based laws, whose legal fees were paid by Donors Trust , a ...
Fisher v. University of Texas may refer to either of two United States Supreme Court cases: . 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.
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In an April 2016 ruling, the Supreme Court upheld Texas's district scheme. [ 11 ] The Fisher case, which challenged the University of Texas 's (UT) consideration of race in its undergraduate admissions process, was decided at the Supreme Court in 2013 and again in 2016.
On Monday, a three-judge panel of the 5th Circuit at the urging of the U.S. Department of Justice put the injunction on hold while the government appealed the Texas judge's decision.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission v. Texas: 23-1300 23-1312 (1) Whether the Hobbs Act, which authorizes a “party aggrieved” by an agency’s “final order” to petition for review in a court of appeals, allows nonparties to obtain review of claims asserting that an agency order exceeds the agency’s statutory authority; and
In 2012, Abigail Fisher, an undergraduate student at Louisiana State University, and Rachel Multer Michalewicz, a law student at Southern Methodist University, filed a lawsuit to challenge the University of Texas admissions policy, asserting it had a "race-conscious policy" that "violated their civil and constitutional rights". [159]