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Page. TABLE OF CITED AUTHORITIES .......................... ii. INTEREST OF THE AMICI CURIAE ....................... 1. SUMMARY OF ARGUMENT ..................................... 3. ARGUMENT ............................................................... 4. GRUTTER SHOULD BE UPHELD ................ 4. Amici Have a Compelling Interest in.
Sep 13, 2024 · The list of schools that have experienced declines in Black enrollment ranges from prestigious smaller colleges such as Amherst College, in Massachusetts, to highly selective Ivy League schools...
Aug 3, 2022 · Amherst College’s brief cites the landmark Supreme Court decision Grutter v. Bollinger, a case from nearly 20 years ago, that upheld the “compelling interest” of a racially diverse student...
Aug 30, 2024 · Amherst College and Tufts University saw drops in the number of Black students after a Supreme Court decision ending affirmative action. At other schools, the picture is murkier.
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In summary, the Equal Protection Clause does not prohibit the Law School's narrowly tailored use of race in admissions decisions to further a compelling interest in obtaining the educational benefits that flow from a diverse student body. Consequently, petitioner's statutory claims based on Title VI and 42 U. S. C. §1981 also fail. See Bakke, supra...
The absence of any articulated legal principle supporting the majority's principal holding suggests another rationale. I believe what lies beneath the Court's decision today are the benighted notions that one can tell when racial discrimination benefits (rather than hurts) minority groups, see Adarand, 515 U. S., at 239 (Scalia, J., concurring in p...
As the foregoing makes clear, I believe the Court's opinion to be, in most respects, erroneous. I do, however, find two points on which I agree.
For the immediate future, however, the majority has placed its imprimatur on a practice that can only weaken the principle of equality embodied in the Declaration of Independence and the Equal Protection Clause. "Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens." Plessy v. Ferguson,163 U. S. 537, 559 (1896) (H...
Amherst initiated and coordinated the brief, which details the “compelling interest” of a racially diverse student body for liberal arts colleges, consistent with the Supreme Court’s decision in the landmark Grutter v. Bollinger case nearly 20 years ago.
Aug 3, 2022 · The case focuses on whether the Supreme Court should overrule Grutter v. Bollinger and hold that institutions of higher education cannot use race as a factor in admissions.
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