Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr., agreed, casting the deciding vote ordering the medical school to admit Bakke. However, in his opinion, Powell argued that the rigid use of racial quotas as …

Nov 5, 2018 · Following a lawsuit, the state court found that the school’s affirmative action program violated Title VI, and the Federal and State Constitutions. The California Supreme …

Mar 12, 2025 · Regents of the University of California v. Bakke was a landmark 1978 Supreme Court case that significantly impacted affirmative action programs in higher education. It …

Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, 438 U.S. 265 (1978), was a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States that involved a dispute over whether preferential …

The University of California had established a quota for minority applicants for its medical school at UC Davis. The case addressed whether such a program violates the equality guarantee of …

In the early 1970s, the University of California Davis School of Medicine devised a dual admissions program to increase representation of racial minorities and “disadvantaged” …

Issue. Is the special admissions program of the University of California constitutional? Can race be considered as a factor in the admissions process? Held. The special admissions program is …

Bakke is a 1978 Supreme Court case which held that a university’s admissions criteria which used race as a definite and exclusive basis for an admission decision violated the Equal Protection …

The first major challenge was Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978), in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled (5–4) that quotas may not be used to reserve places for minority …

Case brief summary of University of California Regents v. Bakke including the facts, issue, holding, and reasoning. Written in plain English to help law students understand the key …