Add to ORKGTwo of America\u27s most cherished values will collide head-on this year, when the U.S. Supreme Court comes to grips with the most significant civil rights suit since the school desegregation cases of 1954. Arrayed on one side is the principle of governmental color-blindness, the appealing notion that the color of a person\u27s skin should have nothing to do with the distribution of benefits or burdens by the state. Set against it is the goal of a truly integrated society and the tragic realization that this objective cannot be achieved within the foreseeable future unless race and color are taken into account by educators, employers and other key decisionmakers- both public and private
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The Supreme Court requires that equal protection plaintiffs prove defendants acted with discriminato...
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Affirmative action was conceived amidst the civil rights movement of the 1960s as an attempt to crea...
This Article will explore the origins of the Court’s color-blind interpretation of the Fourteenth Am...
One can understand constitutional doctrine as a tool designed to effectuate the Constitution and its...
The Supreme Court increasingly has interpreted the Equal Protection Clause as a mandate for the stat...
The U.S. Constitution, like the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, states that no person shall b...
Scholars and judges have long assumed that the Equal Protection Clause is concerned only with state ...
Since handing down Washington v. Davis and Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development, th...
The Supreme Court requires that equal protection plaintiffs prove defendants acted with discriminato...
Espousing colorblindness as the defining feature of the Equal Protection Clause, a bare majority of ...
In Grutter v. Bollinger the Supreme Court held that diversity was a compelling interest for equal pr...
The Supreme Court has interpreted the Equal Protection Clause as a formal equality mandate. In respo...
Fifty years after Brown v. Board of Education, race is still a serious issue in this country. Fortun...
Oh argues that when the United States Supreme Court decided Richmond v. Croson in 1989 and imposed s...
This Note will examine affirmative action jurisprudence, and explore the broader implications of the...
In 2012, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled that Michigan voters had violated pri...
Affirmative action was conceived amidst the civil rights movement of the 1960s as an attempt to crea...
This Article will explore the origins of the Court’s color-blind interpretation of the Fourteenth Am...
One can understand constitutional doctrine as a tool designed to effectuate the Constitution and its...