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California Regents v Bakke
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California Regents v Bakke
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Monday, February 17, 2014
Vol XCIII, No. 311
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The Start of the Case
Four justices wanted to end the program for violating Title IV of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Fourth Amendment Equal Protection Clause, while four others wanted the Court to rule that the program wasn't doing anything wrong and they had to right to have denied Bakke's admittance. Justice Lewis Powell Jr. essentially split the difference, arguing that fixed racial quota programs such as the medical school's violated the Civil Rights Act, but also that a public school's admission policy "may" consider race as long as it was not the determining factor.
University of California Davis
The Court Process
A case in which the Supreme Court overturned a quota policy for admissions at the University of California at Davis, while generally approving affirmative action programs. Allan Bakke, a white male, was denied admittance to the medical school at Davis in 1973 and 1974. In both years the school admitted only one hundred students, reserving sixteen seats for minorities. Bakke sued, claiming "reverse discrimination" because some of the minorities admitted had lower grade point averages and lower scores on the Medical College Admission Test than his.
Blake brought the case to the Superior Court of
California, Judge F. Leslie Manker, found that the
program was "constitutional" and legal and he
argued saying he wouldn't have been admitted even
if there wasn't seats set aside of minorities.
Because the important issues presented in the case
the Supreme Court of California on June 26 ,1975
ordered the appeal transferred to it, bypassing the
intermediate appeals court. After the case arrived in
the Supreme Court.
The Overall Result
The overall result of the case the Supreme Court
ruled the University of California Davis to be
"unconstitutional" and racial "quotas" in the
admissions process was unconstitutional, but the
school's use of "Affirmative Action" to accept more
minorities is constitutional at a certain point.
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