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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.
The United States District Court heard Fisher v. University of Texas in 2009 and upheld the legality of the university's admission policy in a summary judgment. The case was appealed to the Fifth Circuit which also ruled in the university's favor. The Supreme Court agreed on February 21, 2012, to hear the case.
University of Texas may refer to either of two United States Supreme Court cases: University of Texas (2013) (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.
Florida Supreme Court Justice Meredith L. Sasso speaks during a hearing of oral arguments at the Florida Supreme Court on Thursday, Sept. 12, 2024. The hearing regards Florida's redistricting map ...
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The Supreme Court ruled in favor of a former police officer who is seeking to throw out an obstruction charge for joining the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, in a ruling that could benefit former ...
Renatha Sian Francis [3] (born 1977) is an American lawyer who has served as a justice of the Supreme Court of Florida since 2022. She previously served as a circuit judge in Palm Beach County from 2019 to 2022.
On April 29, 2022, incumbent Justice C. Alan Lawson announced his intent to retire, effective August 31. [182] In his place, on August 5, DeSantis appointed Renatha Francis again after she had reached her 10-year mark on the Florida Bar. She took office on September 1 as the court's first Jamaican-American justice. [183] [184]