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REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA v. BAKKE ; CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF CALIFORNIA ; No. 76-811. Argued October 12, 1977 ; Decided June 28, 1978 ; ... The Supreme Court of California transferred the case directly from the trial court, "because of the importance of the issues involved." 18 Cal. 3d 34, 39,
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Bakke claimed that he was a victim of reverse discrimination, and his case has been considered by many as the most important civil rights decision since the end of segregation-and also one of the most difficult ever heard by the Supreme Court.
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Case Basics ... Bakke's qualifications (college GPA and test scores) exceeded those of any of the minority students admitted in the two years Bakke's applications were rejected. Bakke contended, first in the California courts, then in the Supreme Court, that he was excluded from admission solely on the basis of race.
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Regents of the University of California v. Bakke - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The California Supreme Court, applying a strict scrutiny standard, concluded that the special admissions program was not the least intrusive means of achieving the goals ... POWELL, J., announced the Court's judgment and filed an opinion expressing his views of the case, ... Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (No.
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They saw the Bakke case as a dispute which could be settled by the 1964 Civil Rights Act without even calling constitutional matters into questi on. ... My Personal Opinion and Arguments I agree partly with the ruling of the Supreme Court. The decision that Bakke's Constitutional rights were violated I feel is correct.
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On this date, we remember the Alan Bakke case. On June 28, 1978, the California Supreme Court, in a two-part ruling, ordered Alan Bakke (a white man) to be admitted to the University of California at Davis Medical School.
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The Supreme Court of California transferred the case directly from the trial court, "because of the importance of the issues involved." 18 Cal. 3d 34, 39, 553 P. 2d 1152, ... 13 Id., at 63-64, 553 P. 2d, at 1172. The court analogized Bakke's situation to that of a plaintiff under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.
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One reason is the Supreme Court's ambiguous ruling in the 1978 Bakke case, the last time court addressed affirmative action in public universities. The court at the time ruled the University of California at Davis could not hold a quota of places for minorities.
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One of the reasons the Bakke case did not resolve the issue, he notes, is because it lacked a clear majority opinion. ... Up-and-down trends are why Adela De la Torre, director and professor of Chicana/o stud-ies, is concerned about the potential effect of the Supreme Court ruling on Michigan policy.
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