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University of NorthCarolina, which are poised to determine the role of affirmative action in college admissions. The primary issue in both cases is whether the Court should reverse its decision in Grutter v. Decisions in all of the cases are expected before the Court’s term ends in June. Harvard College and SFFA v.
University of NorthCarolina. Here is the column: Forty-four years ago, the Supreme Court was the center of a raging protest by thousands as the justices took up the case of Regents of the University of California v. In Bakke, the courtruled against affirmative action in a fractured decision.
Notre Dame Law Professor Nicole Garnett has been involved in the case and the Notre Dame Religious Liberty Clinic is on the brief for St. The lower courtruled that such funding of a religious school is unconstitutional. Here is the lower court decision: St. The case will be argued in April. Isidore Opinion
Share The Supreme Court on Monday refused to block orders by courts in NorthCarolina and Pennsylvania that threw out the congressional maps enacted by the states’ Republican legislatures and replaced them with maps drawn by the trial courts. The NorthCarolina case.
As previously discussed in columns, the Supreme Court has repeatedly rejected such threshold exclusions on the basis of race or gender as raw discrimination. In 1977, the Courtruled in Regents of the University of California v. University of NorthCarolina.
University of NorthCarolina. Bakke, the court has never achieved clarity on the constitutional use of race beyond barring any preference “for no reason other than race or ethnic origin.” On the same day, the courtruled 6-3 to declare Michigan’s undergraduate admissions unconstitutional in the use of race in Gratz v.
It is important to note that Republicans have also had courtsrule against them in states like NorthCarolina and Pennsylvania). This is the first time that a congressional map has been thrown out in the history of the state. (It
However, in 1981, a federal district courtruled in Idaho v. The Supreme Court later stayed that order but then declared the matter moot.) In 2021 federal Judge Rudolph Contreras ruled that it would have been absurd for the Archivist to disregard the deadline and unilaterally add the unratified amendment to the Constitution.
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