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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 .
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.
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. Fisher v.
To accommodate the ruling in Hopwood v. Texas banning any use of race in school admissions, the State of Texas passed a law guaranteeing entry to any state university if a student finished in the top 10% of their graduating class. Florida and California also have similar college admission guarantees.
Hopwood v. Texas, 78 F.3d 932 (5th Cir. 1996), [1] was the first successful legal challenge to a university's affirmative action policy in student admissions since Regents of the University of California v.
Fisher continued to serve in various civic and administrative posts in San Francisco from 1860 to 1870 until retirement. Soon after retiring, he was appointed by the King of Greece as Consul for that nation. [8] Fisher was married four times. He died in San Francisco on June 11, 1873. [2] Portrait of George Fisher, oil on canvas, late 1830s or ...
United States v. Texas, 579 U.S. ___ (2016), is a United States Supreme Court case regarding the constitutionality of the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans (DAPA) program. In a one-line per curiam decision, an equally divided Court affirmed the lower-court injunction blocking the President Barack Obama's program.
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 ...