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Time to Phase Out Affirmative Action On June 23, 2003, the Supreme Court ruled by a 5-4 majority in favor of the University of Michigan Law School, the defendant
than "end" affirmative action programs (Kahlenberg, 2000, p. 1). This idea is much more realistic. Affirmative action is something that has been in place in America
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On June 23, 2003, the Supreme Court ruled by a 5-4 majority in favor of the University of Michigan Law School, the defendant in a suit alleging the denial of equal treatment under the law resulting from the law school’s racial preferences in admitting students. The case was titled Grutter v. Bollinger because the petitioner was a white woman, Barbara Grutter, and Lee Bollinger was president of the University of Michigan in 1996, when Grutter had been rejected for admission to the law school, and in December 1997, when Grutter filed her suit. According to Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, the author of the majority opinion, Grutter v. Bollinger was the first Supreme Court case to “directly address the use of race in the context of public higher education” since 1978, when it supported the petition of Alan Bakke, on the grounds that his rejection for admission by the medical school at the University of California at Davis was based on the school’s use of a quota for the admission of minorities and the use of quotas was unconstitutional. At the same time, the court ruled in the Bakke case that race could be considered as one factor in student admissions to achieve a diverse student body. In Grutter v. Bollinger, the court affirmed its decisions in the Bakke case and clarified, somewhat, why and how race can be considered in school admissions.
The University of Michigan Law School maintained that it considered race in admissions to achieve the educational benefits that derive from a diverse student body. The court stated, “Today, we hold that the law school has a compelling interest in attaining a diverse student body.” In other words, the court supported the findings of the law school, which no doubt reflect many other findings in the field of education, that a diverse student body contributes to the attainment of educational goals. Obviously, the court rejected many other findings that question the relationship between the diversity of a...
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