Gratz v. Bollinger

(noun)

A 2003 Supreme Court case in which the court held that giving race a certain number of points in admissions decisions at the University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and Arts was unconstitutional.

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Examples of Gratz v. Bollinger in the following topics:

  • Controversies Surrounding Affirmative Action

    • The most famous of these cases include Regents of the University of California v.
    • Bakke (1978), Hopwood v.
    • Texas (1996), Grutter v.
    • Bollinger (2003), Gratz v.
    • Bollinger (2003), and Parents Involved in Community Schools v.

  • The End of Affirmative Action?

    • Since the case of Regents of the University of California v.Bakke in 1978, several Supreme Court cases have revisited questions of affirmative action in higher education.
    • In 2003, the Supreme Court heard the case of Gratz v.
    • Bollinger, regarding the undergraduate admissions policies of the College of Literature, Science, and Arts at the University of Michigan.
    • After being denied admission, Jennifer Gratz filed suit on the basis that the University of Michigan's point system discriminated against her on the basis of race, as she belonged to none of the specified minority groups.
    • The Supreme Court is expected to rule again on affirmative action in the upcoming term in the case of Fisher v.

  • Affirmative Action

    • Some policies adopted as affirmative action, such as racial quotas or gender quotas for collegiate admission, have been criticized as a form of reverse discrimination, and such implementation of affirmative action has been ruled unconstitutional by the majority opinion in the case of Gratz v.
    • Bollinger.
    • Affirmative action as a practice was upheld by the court's decision in Grutter v.
    • Bollinger.