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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.
He also authored the controversial state interpretation of the Hopwood v. Texas case, which ended all affirmative action in higher education in Texas until the United States Supreme Court reversed Hopwood in 2003. He is a graduate of Trinity University in San Antonio and Harvard Law School. [2]
The bill was created as a means to avoid the stipulations from the Hopwood v. Texas appeals court case banning the use of affirmative action. The Supreme Court ruled in Grutter v. Bollinger (2003) that affirmative action in college admissions was permissible, effectively overruling Hopwood. UT Austin then reinstated affirmative action for the ...
Smith wrote the majority opinion in Hopwood v. Texas, 78 F.3d 932 (5th Cir. 1996), in which the Fifth Circuit struck down the use of affirmative action in admissions at the University of Texas School of Law. Seven years later, the decision was abrogated by the U.S. Supreme Court's 5–4 decision in Grutter v. Bollinger, 539 U.S. 306 (2003 ...
“The Texas Constitution is on our side,” said James Knight, an attorney at the Institute for Justice, who plans to file a lawsuit against the state on Wednesday on behalf of Youniacutt and ...
In their 2022 lawsuit, the then-newly formed Texas group Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine and other abortion opponents had sought to have mifepristone pulled from the market. In April 2023, they ...
The University of Texas School of Law was founded in 1883. [8] Prior to the Civil Rights Movement, the school was limited to white students, but the school's admissions policies were challenged from two different directions in high-profile 20th century federal court cases that were important to the long struggle over segregation, integration, and diversity in American education.
The Texas lawsuit is among the biggest challenges to abortion bans in the U.S. since Roe v. Wade was overturned last year. In July, several Texas women gave emotional testimony about carrying ...