University of California v. Bakke - Significance, Reverse Discrimination Claimed, Further Readings

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Petitioner

The Medical School of the University of California

Respondent

Allan Bakke

Petitioner's Claim

That the California Supreme Court erred in ruling that the school's special-admissions program for minorities violated Bakke's civil rights as a white male when he was denied admission.

Chief Lawyers for Petitioner

Archibald Cox, Paul J. Mishkin, Jack B. Owens, Donald L. Reidhaar

Chief Lawyer for Respondent

Reynold H. Colvin

Justices for the Court

Harry A. Blackmun, William J. Brennan, Jr., Thurgood Marshall, Lewis F. Powell, Jr. (writing for the Court), Byron R. White

Justices Dissenting

Warren E. Burger, William H. Rehnquist, John Paul Stevens, Potter Stewart

Place

Washington, D.C.

Date of Decision

28 June 1978

Decision

That the school's special-admissions program was unconstitutional.

Related Cases

United Steelworkers of America v. Weber, 443 U.S. 193 (1979).
Hopwood v. Texas, 78 F.3d 932 (5th Cir. 1996).

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University of California v. Bakke - Significance

For the first time, the Supreme Court said there could be such a thing as reverse discrimination. The University of California operates several campuses throughout the state, and it is one of the largest state-sponsored higher education systems. At the university's campus in Davis, California, a medical school was established in 1968 with an entering class of 50 students. Three years later, the en…

University of California v. Bakke - Reverse Discrimination Claimed

The school appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court and argued their case on 12 October 1977. Bakke's attorney, Colvin, was making his first Supreme Court appearance, and he faced several experienced attorneys. For example, Cox was a former Harvard Law School professor and had served as Watergate Special Prosecutor. Colvin found himself immersed in an argument with Justice Thurgood Marshall, the only Af…

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