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...most important civil rights case since Brown v. Board of Education, the would-be medical student is suing the University of California for refusing to admit him, a white, while accepting blacks who were less qualified. The Carter Administration becomes involved this week when the Justice Department files an amicus brief with the Supreme Court, which will take up the case next month. The basic issue: quotas and "reverse discrimination...
...amicus curiae court brief on the controversial Bakke case filed in the Supreme Court Monday by the Department of Justice argues in favor of affirmative action programs, and thus supports the position of the University of California in that case, the university's general counsel said yesterday...
...amicus curiae or "friend of the court" brief is submitted to the court as an indication of the belief of a person or institution interested in a case...
Laissez-faire seems a weird justification for quotas, but that's Harvard's reason for filing an amicus curiae ('friend of the court') brief in a Supreme Court appeal by a California state medical school that has been convicted of discriminating against whites by reserving 16 places for minority group members in a class of 100 members...
Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, announced this week that Harvard will submit an amicus curiae (friend of the court) brief, supporting the affirmative action admissions policy at the University of California at Davis Medical School...