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Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, 438 U.S. 265 (1978), was a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States that involved a dispute over whether preferential treatment for minorities could reduce educational opportunities for whites without violating the Constitution.
Affirmative Action has been supported in America since the Bakke decision in 1978 which stated that consideration of race in college admissions was legal.
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 ...
On August 2, 2010, in a case brought before the Supreme Court of California by the Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF) found for the second time that Proposition 209 was constitutional. [19] [20] The ruling, by a 6–1 majority, followed a unanimous affirmation in 2000 of the constitutionality of Prop. 209 by the same court. [21] [22]
That was kind of challenged in 1978 by the Bakke decision.” In that decision, the Supreme Court essentially upheld affirmative action but determined that racial quotas were unconstitutional.
This view was boosted by the Supreme Court's decision in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978), which said that racial quotas for minority students were discriminatory against white people. [14] Legal cases concerning so-called "reverse racism" date back as far as the 1970s, for instance Regents of the University of California v.
The Supreme Court's recent ruling to overturn affirmative action means that Colleges and universities can no longer consider race in admission policies. Here how the ruling affects students.
In the case of Bakke (as well as numerous subsequent cases), the Court said that affirmative action programs that are based simply on the basis of race are unconstitutional. However, affirmative action programs that take race into account as one of the factors to consider, but not the only factor, are permissible.