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Plaintiffs Abigail Noel Fisher and Rachel Multer Michalewicz applied to the University of Texas at Austin in 2008 and were denied admission. The two women, both white, filed suit, alleging that the University had discriminated against them on the basis of their race in violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. [5]
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.
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.
Vera, Shelby County v. Holder, and Fisher v. University of Texas. [27] The SFFA case was the first high-profile case on behalf of plaintiffs who were not white, and who had academic credentials that, according to Vox, were "much harder to criticize." The lawyers for SFFA stated that the initial hearing focused on the issue of discrimination ...
Cydni Ehlers, a senior at the university, is one of those students. On Monday evening, she received a deposit of $288.03 in her Venmo account. Ehlers said she completely forgot she ever filed for ...
[1] [2] In June 2023, the Supreme Court ruled in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard that affirmative action programs in college admissions (excepting military academies ) are unconstitutional. SFFA has been described by its opponents as an anti- affirmative action group that objects to the use of race as one of the factors in college ...
A cheerleader has dropped her federal sexual harassment lawsuit against Northwestern University. Hayden Richardson filed the lawsuit in the Northern District of Illinois in January 2021 alleging ...
A federal judge has dismissed Frances Fisher’s lawsuit against SAG-AFTRA, in which the actress accused the union and several of its former and current leaders of breaching their duty of fair ...