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...cases—Grutter v. Bollinger and Gratz v. Bollinger—involved white applicants to the University of Michigan’s law school and undergraduate programs who claim they were denied admission as a result of affirmative action policies which they call unconstitutional...
...tomorrow, the Court will hear arguments in the cases of Grutter v. Bollinger and Gratz v. Bollinger. Oral arguments before the Supreme Court traditionally last one-hour per case...
Since the court’s deeply divided ruling in the 1978 case Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, institutions of higher education across the nation have awaited a new decision on the appropriate role race should play in college admissions. The two cases under review, Gratz v. Bollinger and Grutter v. Bollinger, address whether minorities can be given extra “points” in the admissions process and whether a “critical mass” of minority students is a legal means by which to encourage diversity...
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...Saint Charles, a ship since dubbed "the Jewish Mayflower," arrived in what is now New York Harbor with 23 Jews aboard. They were fleeing the Spanish Inquisition. It is their descendants-including the Nathan, Gratz, Seixas, Franks and Lopez families-that Birmingham examines. They consider themselves the nobility of American Jewry because their heritage can be traced back to medieval Spain and Portugal, where their ancestors lived as grandees-Spanish or Portuguese noblemen of the first rank...