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  2. Regents of the University of California v. Bakke - Wikipedia

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    The university requested that the U.S. Supreme Court stay the order requiring Bakke's admission pending its filing of a petition asking for a review. U.S. Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist, as circuit justice for the Ninth Circuit (California is within the Ninth Circuit) granted the stay for the court in November 1976. [52] [53]

  3. Rodriguez v. United States - Wikipedia

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    Rodriguez v. United States, 575 U.S. 348 (2015), was a United States Supreme Court case which analyzed whether police officers may extend the length of a traffic stop to conduct a search with a trained detection dog. [1]

  4. Florida v. Harris - Wikipedia

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    Florida v. Harris, 568 U.S. 237 (2013), was a case in which the United States Supreme Court addressed the reliability of a dog sniff by a detection dog trained to identify narcotics, under the specific context of whether law enforcement's assertions that the dog is trained or certified is sufficient to establish probable cause for a search of a vehicle under the Fourth Amendment to the United ...

  5. Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard - Wikipedia

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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.

  6. Affirmative action heads to Supreme Court, years after UC ...

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    Allan Bakke, who challenged UC Davis’ admissions policies, graduated in 1982. Skip to main content. News. Need help? Call us! 800-290-4726. Login / Join. Mail. Downloads; AOL App ...

  7. Patrol dog's biting unarmed woman was excessive force, judges ...

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    The U.S. Supreme Court declined last year to review two cases challenging qualified immunity, including an appeal from a Texas woman whose son died in a county jail while a guard watched and ...

  8. Schuette v. BAMN - Wikipedia

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    In the first case involving affirmative action in higher education, the Supreme Court ruled in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978) that the UC Davis medical school admissions program violated the Fourteenth Amendment with the institution of quotas for underrepresented minorities. It did not, however, eliminate race as a ...

  9. List of landmark court decisions in the United States

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    This was the first case in which the Supreme Court struck down a state law as unconstitutional. Martin v. Hunter's Lessee, 14 U.S. 304 (1816) Federal courts may review state court decisions when they rest on federal law or the federal Constitution. This decision provides for the uniform interpretation of federal law throughout the states ...