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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 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.
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.
Fischer v. United States, 603 U.S. ___, was a United States Supreme Court case about the proper use of the felony charge of obstructing an official proceeding, established in the Sarbanes–Oxley Act, against participants in the January 6 United States Capitol attack. The Supreme Court ruled 6–3 in June of 2024 that the charge only applied ...
1996 — Hopwood v. Texas, 78 F.3d 932 (5th Cir. 1996) [70] — first successful legal challenge to race conscious admissions since Regents of the University of California v. Bakke; 1996 — Piscataway School Board v. Taxman, 91 F.3d 1547 (3d Cir. 1996) 1998 — Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod v. FCC, 141 F.3d 344 (D.C. Cir. 1998) 1999 ...
Running in 1994 for election to her first full term, Hutchison received 2,604,281 votes (60.8 percent) to 1,639,615 votes (38.3 percent) cast for Democrat Richard W. Fisher, the son-in-law of the late Republican Congressman James M. Collins, who had also run in the 1993 special election.
Fisher was one of five U.S. representatives from Texas to sign the "Southern Manifesto" [9] in protest of the US Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education . [ 10 ] Fisher voted against the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 , [ 11 ] 1960 , [ 12 ] 1964 , [ 13 ] and 1968 [ 14 ] as well as the 24th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution [ 15 ...
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