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Screenplay by John Considine, Patricia Resnick, Allan Nicholls and Robert Altman...
...decision of the Supreme Court in the Allan Bakke case was the only rational and just decision to be arrived at and was certainly not a defeat for the blacks or other minority groups. Rather, it was clearly a victory for the individual...
Just five days after its ruling on the "reverse discrimination" complaint of the medical school applicant Allan Bakke, the Supreme Court last week turned to the no less controversial issue of affirmative action in the field of employment. In contrast to the Bakke decision, in which six Justices filled 154 pages with occasionally passionate legal arguments, the court simply let stand-without explanation-a lower-court ruling that approved numerical goals for employment and promotion of minorities and women...
...They are Bakke. They are victims of reverse discrimination brought about by court order and a rigid quota." The comparison seemed somewhat stretched, but Judge Marshall nevertheless delayed his order abolishing the 1973 list of candidates for promotion and allowed Barry time to submit new arguments based on the Allan Bakke case...
Like most other civil rights leaders in the U.S., Jackson criticized last week's Supreme Court decision admitting Allan Bakke to a University of California medical school on the ground that affirmative action programs may be harmed...