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The agreement became final on August 12, 2013, with Texas A&M purchasing the school and all its physical and licensing assets for $73 million. [10] After the sale, Texas A&M University declined to re-issue Texas A&M diplomas to law school alumni, stating that A&M lacked the necessary accreditation to do so. [11]
Grutter v. Bollinger, 539 U.S. 306 (2003), was a landmark case of the Supreme Court of the United States concerning affirmative action in student admissions.The Court held that a student admissions process that favors "underrepresented minority groups" did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause so long as it took into account other factors evaluated on an individual ...
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In Hopwood, four white plaintiffs who had been rejected from University of Texas at Austin's School of Law challenged the institution's admissions policy on equal protection grounds and prevailed. After seven years as a precedent in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, the Hopwood decision was abrogated by the U.S. Supreme Court in ...
Texas A&M University School of Law is rising in the ranks, according to U.S. News & World Report. This was the most significant rise in ranking among top 50 schools in the U.S. since last year.
Texas A&M School of Law, formerly Texas Wesleyan University School of Law, is located in Fort Worth. [48] [49] Texas A&M maintains the RELLIS Campus, formerly the Texas A&M University-Riverside Campus and Bryan Air Force Base, which was transferred from the university to become a separate entity within the Texas A&M University System in ...
In his ruling, Higginbotham wrote that the "ever-increasing number of minorities gaining admission under this 'Top Ten Percent Law' casts a shadow on the horizon to the otherwise-plain legality of the Grutter-like admissions program, the Law's own legal footing aside." [14] A request for a full-court en banc hearing was denied by a 9–7 vote ...
The founding member of the A&M System is Texas A&M University, established in 1876. Prairie View A&M, also established in 1876, is an HBCU.The A&M System, like all schools in Texas was racially segregated by state law, from its founding until the 1960s. [6]