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Maureen E. Mahoney, the attorney for University of Michigan Law School, explicitly referred to Harvard’s plan as a model plan without a quota, and then compared it to Michigan??€™s law school policy of considering race as one factor in admissions...
...closely divided opinions, the Court reiterated its view of affirmative action as a legal means of achieving diversity. But its treatment of the actual policies in question differed sharply between the two cases: while the admissions policy of the University of Michigan??€™s Law School was upheld, that of its undergraduate program—which uses a point-based system in which all minority applicants receive a fixed boost—was ruled unconstitutional...
...Court’s logic in the two cases—brought by white Michigan residents who had been denied admission to the University of Michigan??€”were explained in complicated rulings with numerous separate opinions from the justices...
...contrast, in Gratz the Court held that Michigan??€™s undergraduate point-based policy rewarded race to the exclusion of any nuanced consideration...
...vote by the justices overturned the University of Michigan??€™s undergraduate admissions policy in Gratz v. Bollinger. That policy automatically granted underrepresented minorities 20 points out of the 100 necessary for admission...