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Bollinger, speak to the media outside the U. He scored 28 on the ACT 89th percentile and maintained a 3. Barbara Grutter earned a B. She graduated in and scored on her LSAT, but she postponed law school for a career as a health care consultant and manager. In , she founded a successful health care information firm, and in , at age 43, she applied to the UM Law School.
Grutter was wait-listed and eventually rejected. Texas officials argue that the plan is a constitutional valid means to achieve more diversity among African and Hispanic Americans than the Top Ten Percent plan provided. And in particular they studied enrollment in smaller classes and found a greater need to target diversity in specific schools, programs, and majors to achieve actual diversity in the classroom, rather than just generally in the student body.
Earlier this year, the full Fifth Circuit voted nine to seven not to rehear the case en banc — i. But Chief Judge Edith Jones, joined by four colleagues, wrote a dissent, arguing that the three-judge panel that had upheld the plan had given too much deference to judgments made by the University of Texas. Both the opinion by Chief Judge Jones and the appeal by Fisher maintain that the lower courts did not adequately question the need for the Texas plan and failed to factor in the fact that the Top Ten Percent plan was already achieving diversity in the University.
The opinion by Judge Jones in particular seems geared to attract the attention of conservative Justices. Seattle School District No. But there is unquestionably a strong contingent of the Court who view the decision in Grutter as erroneous and who view the use of race for affirmative action purposes as generally violative of the Constitution.
Cases: Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin. Specifically, did Austin, Texas, violate the free-speech rights of advertising companies when it regulated "off-premises" business signs more strictly than "on-premises" signs? AHoweBlogger explains:. In , the Supreme Court unanimously agreed that an Arizona town could not impose different restrictions on the One case challenges Congress' exclusion of Puerto Rico from a federal safety-net program. The other involves the right of death-row prisoners to receive spiritual guidance in their final moments.
Two cases today: a lawsuit against the FBI for surveilling Muslim Americans, and a technical copyright dispute. But some justices seemed reluctant to wade into broader questions about the right to carry guns in public. AHoweBlogger's full analysis:.
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