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...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...
...infringe individual rights by excluding white students from consideration for seats set aside for minorities. As such, the University of Michigan law school’s admissions policy—which seeks to enroll a critical mass of minority students—should be struck down. As plaintiff Barbara Grutter argued in her final brief to the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, critical mass “is a concept based on numbers.” The fact that critical mass is a vague range of acceptable percentages of minority students means that there is a minimum permissible level...
...agreed to hear an affirmative-action case about college admissions--but the University of Michigan Law School may break the drought. Last week a bitterly divided federal Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 5 to 4 in favor of the school's race-conscious admissions policy. Lawyers for Barbara Grutter, a white woman whose Michigan application was rejected, are already working on her appeal. "It's time for the Supreme Court to weigh in and explain better what the law is in this area," says Terence Pell, CEO of the Center for Individual Rights, which is funding Grutter's legal...
...courts have viewed Bakke differently: pro-affirmative action universities in the Fifth Circuit's jurisdiction feel legal victories are unlikely, but those in the Sixth are heartened by the Michigan case. The fact that lower courts have interpreted Bakke in divergent ways may lead the Supreme Court to hear Grutter's appeal, experts believe...
...majority decision in the Michigan case, which is called Grutter v. Bollinger, referred to Powell’s discussion of the “Harvard plan,” which Powell said was legal because the University used race in admissions only in order to make its student body more diverse...