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Regents of University of California v. Bakke
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- Did the University of California violate the Fourteenth Amendment's equal protection clause, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, by practicing an affirmative action policy that resulted in the repeated rejection of Bakke's application for admission to its medical school?
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Regents of University of California v. Bakke
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By: Neha Jabeen
The Issue at Hand
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Decision/Reasoning
- There was no single majority opinion
- The Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision written by Justice Lewis Franklin Powell, ruled that it violated both the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
- A state may constitutionally consider race as a factor in its university admissions to promote educational diversity, but only if considered alongside other factors and on a case-by-case basis.
- Reasoned that admissions programs that rely on a quota system, in which a specified percentage of spaces in the class is reserved for a particular racial or ethnic group, were always unconstitutional, regardless of the justifications offered for them.
The Facts
- In 1977, the medical school of the University of California at Davis devised a dual admissions program to increase representation of disadvantaged minority students.
- Allan Bakke was a white male who applied to and was rejected from the regular admissions program(twice)
- Bakke filed suit, alleging that this admissions system violated the Equal Protection Clause and excluded him on the basis of race.
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