enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Fisher v. University of Texas (2016) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher_v._University_of...

    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]

  3. Fisher v. University of Texas (2013) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher_v._University_of...

    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.

  4. Fisher v. University of Texas - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher_v._University_of_Texas

    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.

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

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regents_of_the_University...

    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.

  6. University of Texas students receive settlement in Juul class ...

    www.aol.com/university-texas-students-receive...

    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 ...

  7. Lawsuit: Fisher Investments violated federal telemarketing law

    www.aol.com/news/lawsuit-fisher-investments...

    Apr. 14—Camas-based financial management firm Fisher Investments has been hit with a class-action lawsuit alleging that the company violated federal law by using an automated system to place ...

  8. Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Students_for_Fair...

    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 ...

  9. Thermo Fisher settles Henrietta Lacks lawsuit over 'HeLa ...

    www.aol.com/news/thermo-fisher-settles-henrietta...

    Laboratory equipment maker Thermo Fisher Scientific has settled a lawsuit brought by the estate of Henrietta Lacks, whose cells have fueled biomedical research for decades, lawyers for the estate ...