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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Bakke, a 1978 landmark decision, that affirmative action could be used as a determining factor in college admission policy but that the University of California, Davis School of Medicine's racial quota was discriminatory. The Court upheld this case in Grutter v. Bollinger, a 2003 landmark decision.
Racial discrimination, affirmative action Lockett v. Ohio: 438 U.S. 586 (1978) Mitigating evidence required by the Eighth Amendment in capital sentencing proceedings FCC v. Pacifica Foundation: 438 U.S. 726 (1978) FCC policing of obscenity Rakas v. Illinois: 439 U.S. 128 (1978) Asserting the Fourth Amendment rights of third persons
Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) is a nonprofit legal advocacy organization founded in 2014 by conservative activist Edward Blum for the purpose of challenging affirmative action admissions policies at schools. [1] [2] In June 2023, the Supreme Court ruled in Students for Fair Admissions v.
Prior to the ruling, affirmative action policies meant that university admissions officers were allowed to consider a student's race in addition to their grades and extracurricular activities when ...
The Supreme Court’s recent ruling on affirmative action will undoubtedly change the way race is considered in the college admissions process, potentially making it systematically challenging for ...
Akron Center for Reproductive Health, 462 U.S. 416 (1983), was a case in which the United States Supreme Court affirmed its abortion rights jurisprudence. In a majority opinion by Lewis F. Powell Jr. , the Court struck down several provisions of an abortion law of Akron, Ohio , including portions found to be unconstitutionally vague .
The Supreme Court's recent ruling to overturn affirmative action means that Colleges and universities can no longer consider race in admission policies. Here how the ruling affects students.
The challenger in both cases, Students for Fair Admissions, argued that affirmative action is illegal in public and private college settings because it penalizes equally qualified Asian-American ...