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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.
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: 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.
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The Supreme Court is set to hear two cases at the end of the month challenging race-based admissions policies at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina.
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 ...
The court's decision in the 2013 case of Fisher v. University of Texas made alterations to the standards by which courts must judge affirmative action programs, but continued to permit race to be taken into consideration in university admissions, while forbidding outright quotas. [112] [113] In 2023, the Court, in Students for Fair Admissions v.
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.