Word: cision
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...celebrated Bakke decision of 1978, the court struck down a fixed racial quota on admissions to the medical school of the University of California at Davis, but said that race could be an element in the university's admissions policy. In last year's Weber de -cision, the court upheld a quota in a private company's employee training program. Left unresolved, however, was the fundamental constitutional question: Does the "equal protection of the laws" guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment flatly prohibit government affirmative-action programs? In last week's case, six Justices said no. They...